Live to Eat
For Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Challenge: 9 April 2021
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| Photo Credit: Brenda Cox |
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Andre lived by the dictum, “Live to Eat“ as opposed to, “Eat to Live.”
To him, everything was fair game including bugs, frogs, rats, bats, cats, dogs, reptiles, and monkeys, as long as they could be boiled, fried or broiled.
It wasn’t surprising that wherever he traveled, Andre always visited the local wet market to see what it had to offer. If that wasn’t enough to satisfy his bizarre appetite, he’d risk going to more exotic places even where the cannibals lived.
Sadly, it was during one of those forays that Andre never returned and ended up being food himself.
Remembrance
For Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Challenge: 2 April 2021
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| Photo Credit: Jennifer Pendergast |
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When I reported for work as a member of their team, Rich engaged with me at once and we became fast friends.
He found my personality a little uptight. He helped me relax by going for two-hour lunches at the nearby watering hole.
I remember him sharing his mother’s cookies that she sent during the holidays. “Mom thinks I’m still her little boy,” he laughed.
A few years later, Rich succumbed to pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed Steve Jobs.
Needless to say I miss him. His passing left an emptiness in my heart that will never be filled.
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