Jump off the Seesaw!

Sylvia Petter

by Sylvia Petter

Story

Jumping courses for you and your dog – special reduction for cats – available with a 30% reduction during black weeks.

 

You don’t have to follow the men and women with their weird lookalike coifs, even if they wave a chainsaw at you to underline their policies. 

 

Jump off the seesaw. Make the pendulum swing. The only sure thing is change!

 

No guarantees, but what have you got to lose? And you’ve so much to gain. 

 

Basic course comes with a supply of courage drops and integrity pills.

 

 The key to a new freedom

 

It must have been quite a feat sculpting the bow and making it balance the shank, have it fit the collar and throating for the pin for an object so fragile and small. But its size is what saved Mario and Liquirizia. It was unusually tiny for a key to such an ornate cabinet. 

 

When the two friends pushed at the inside of the door and jiggled at the keyhole, the key dropped out; they heard a ping on the floor and knew that they could escape the cabinet. Nothing was in their way anymore and they would be able to jump from the seesaw and be free of the egotistical constraints of the adults.


Oh to squat like that by the water and stroke the sand. Only a boy can do that. Nothing to lose, all to gain. It’s too late for me now. I am the Chancellor, but I fear that my days are numbered. That’s the price I must pay. I strove for the future and ignored the past, not thinking to live in the moment. Now it’s too late and no manner of futuristic technology can even things out. I should have escaped to the seaside, opened my eyes to the needs by my side. But it was too early then. I was trying to manage the seesaw. To no avail. The boy will live in the moment, play with his dog, let the waves tumble over the words he inscribed in the sand.

 

 

 

© Sylvia Petter 2023-12-27

Genres
Novels & Stories
Moods
Challenging