New Story — Heron Thoughts
The life of a heron revolves around food. Hunting it, mostly. We’re not efficient when it comes to procuring nourishment. It doesn’t help that our food sources move so fast! Fish flash between our legs while tasty amphibians hop over our heads. It’s not fair; herbivores don’t have to chase down their meals!
The life of a philosophical heron revolves around thinking about food, life, and how herons got screwed by the Great Bird In The Sky: forced to find our next meal while wading in ponds with our stilt legs.
On the flip side, we’re majestic, so there’s that.
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Old Untitled Story (from 2013? https://onehundredwordsbyparz.blogspot.com/2018/11/amphibian-picked-efficient.html)
She picked it up carefully. She had to — frogs are slippery.
Arthritic fingers held the quivering amphibian while cold eyes studied it. “No, not you”, she muttered unpleasantly, and dropped it back into the swamp water. Clearly annoyed, she wondered where he was hiding this time.
She wasn’t evil, just an efficient problem-solver. Mosquitoes that bite? People who annoy? Both solved by turning annoying people into mosquito-eating frogs! Her husband, for instance…But she needed him to fix the leaky roof. So she needed to change him back. Again. Reluctantly.
She spied another frog. She picked it up carefully.
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