Let's Do Dan's Prompts

THIRTEEN
WRITING PROMPTS.
BY DAN WIENCEK

2.

Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Throw some birds in there, too.

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Forty-two years too late to make Mildred Minnig laugh again, a bus drove out of a lake and ran into a grove of trees. First, however, the bus hit an outhouse. One of the birds nesting in the grove got it right in the eye. Were she alive, this would have pleased Mildred Minnig. Poetic justice delivered by a bus. Once while standing in her backyard talking over the fence to my mother, Mildred looked up at a squirrel chattering in the crabapple tree. A robin was also in the tree directly above Mildred. Because of the robin, Mildred cut short the conversation directly, to wash her glasses, her face, her hair, and her shirt. Later, she and my mother laughed and laughed.