Welcome to the Spot Writers. This
month’s prompt was created using a random generator. Use these five words in a
writing: suntan, paint, waterfall, inflation, exposure.
Today’s post is written by Phil Yeats.
In December, 2019, Phil (using his Alan Kemister pen name) published his most
recent novel. Tilting at Windmills, the second in
the Barrettsport Mysteries series
of soft-boiled police detective stories set in an imaginary Nova Scotia coastal
community is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Tilting-Windmills-Barrettsport-Mysteries-Book-ebook/dp/B07L5WR948/
Ticky
Tacky
by Phil Yeats
When I was a young man in university, I
imagined I’d make enough money to guard against inflation eroding my nest egg
and killing my dream.
And my dream? To sail to a tropical
island where I’d live in blissful isolation. Not a coral atoll where the
maximum elevation was four feet, and I’d constantly fear exposure to global
warming and sea level rise. No, I dreamed about an isolated spot on the flank
of an extinct volcano where I could paint a waterfall and maintain an all-over
suntan.
It didn’t work out that way. When I awoke
from my university dream, I found myself in suburbia with a house, a wife, and
two kids. If you want the gory details, you can look up the words to Malvina
Reynolds song Little Boxes. It describes my life—the one I lived, not the one I dreamed.
‘Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
The Spot Writers—Our Members:
Val Muller: http://www.valmuller.com/blog/
Catherine A. MacKenzie:
https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/
Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com
Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.com/
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