Thank you to gobblers/masticadores for publishing my short story Trash and Treasure this month.
I wasn’t sure where this story was going but I enjoyed the journey. Hope you do too.
As always, please feel free to share if you know anyone who’d enjoy reading it.
by Rae Cod
Martin knew the saying; once man’s trash is another’s treasure, but it always amazed him the items that people discarded. Dropping it at the charity shop made them feel better about it, but make no mistake, if all the charity shops closed tomorrow it would be on the rubbish heap.
That’s how much stuff people were drowning in these days, he thought, so much they didn’t know what to do with it. On a typical day, they’d get board games, teddy bears, designer clothes with the labels on them, books, DVDs. That was just the normal stuff. Then you had the weird and (not so) wonderful; the see-through trouser suit (that one sold to a gentleman in a non-see-through pinstriped suit, the toilet seat (binned), the set of false teeth (also binned) and once a box of ashes that turned out to be the family dog, returned…
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It is another beautiful story filled with wisdom! Thank you for sharing it!
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Thank you Manuela, you’re so kind 😊
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You are more than welcome!
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Lovely x
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Thanks so much Jackie, glad you enjoyed it. Hope all is well with you xxx
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, with an ending that I hadn’t expected. Beautiful.
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Thanks lovely, you’re so kind 😚xx
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Oooh, I’ve got goosebumps reading that Rae. Mystical and lovely x
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Thanks lovely, glad you enjoyed it 😚
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