Marketting

 

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to write about a guidebook to pine trees, a school bus, and a painted rock.

In April, 2024, Phil published The Body on Karli’s Beach, the third book in his Barrettsport Mysteries, a series of soft-boiled mysteries set in a fictional South Shore Nova Scotia town. For information about these books, and The Road to Environmental Armageddon, his trilogy about the hazards of ignoring human-induced climate change, visit his website: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com/

 

Marketting

by Phil Yeats

 

My new yard contained a small tree I didn’t recognize. It looked like a pine, but not quite like any pine I’d seen before.

I visited the library looking for a book on pine trees. I picked up one titled ‘The Guidebook to Pine Trees’ and flipped through its pages, but didn’t see mine. A more careful look with my little tree close by was in order, so I signed it out.

Outside the library, a school bus went by and a rock flew out of a window, bounced once on the sidewalk and landed in the grass. I picked it up and turned it over. Written on the bottom in white paint was ‘Painted Rock by Jessica’.

Interesting marketing strategy, I said to myself before replacing it face up so more people might notice its bright colours.

 

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The Spot Writers:

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/