Microfiction Day 204 – ‘The Unexpected’

“Wait!”

Taking her phone from her pocket, she crouched down a took a close up photo of the comb on the ground.

“Why on earth are you photographing a comb?”

“Have you never photographed something that made you stop in your tracks? Something found in a place where it doesn’t belong?”

“Well yes, but things like graffiti on a wall, or a cat in a window.”

She shook her head. “None of those things are unexpected. They all belong in those spaces. But how often do you see a comb in a forest?”

“I don’t think I ever have.”

“Exactly.”


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  1. Justin Smith avatar
    Justin Smith

    This one’s clever

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