Wednesday 27 March 2013

Poor Thing


“.... trapped under the rubble, was no choice but to amputate.”
I’d recounted the events so many times.
“Poor thing”, they always said.
“Poor thing - no way.  Lucky me. Could’ve been both legs.” 
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33 words written for Trifecta: Week Seventy.
Using the word prompt lucky with context producing or resulting in good by chance : favorable

Trifecta Writing:

9 comments:

  1. Well, that kind of puts Lucky in perspective. Good one!

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  2. Oh excellent! I have to remember to think like that! :D

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  3. Oh geez, yes, lucky that it wasn't both legs, but the tragedy... well done evoking the emotion.

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  4. Yup, the only way to move forward! Nice.

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  5. Nice little piece on perspective (and I'm impressed with your ability to keep it to 33 words! I pretty much always push right up to 333)

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  6. That's one way of looking at it (:

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  7. I guess he was one of those 'the glass is half full' optimists

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  8. Wonderfully optimistic-love how the narrator looks at his amputation as being "lucky"-excellent work:-)

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  9. This is great. With a positive attitude like that, nothing will stop him.

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