Wednesday is bin day, the day a specially designed vehicle collects detritus from a week’s living for its journey to the landfill site.
Sunday, a different specially designed vehicle collects cargo for its journey. Friends and relatives watch as a life’s living is lowered into the earth at another site.
Chris lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He is retired and having fun writing. He has just published his first book, “Fifty More or Less”.
The wind caused the leaves to whisper. Whispers about times past when the trees could live without the threat of death by loggers. Times when the water course provided crystal clear drinking water for their roots. Times when copious salmon offered their spent bodies as nutrients. How times have changed.
Chris Lihou lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He is retired and having fun writing, including pieces of 50 word fiction.
The project did not matter; it was all about the aroma. The more sawdust produced, the more shavings he curled off the wood, the more his nostrils were filled with a smell that transfixed him into a Zen-like state. On some days he was even known to make something useful.
Chris Lihou is retired, now finding his voice via writing; including 50 word fiction.