WHEN GOD WAS A BOY
Peaceful’s ancestors were goatherds
when God was a boy – his grandfather maintained it was goatherds who visited
the stable when Jesus was born, but the gospellers called them shepherds
because goats were too common.
Peaceful loved his work. It was
usually undemanding – you walked, the goats ate everything in sight, you moved
on. He much preferred the gentle clonking of their bells to the honking of car
horns in town.
But today the graveyard needed
cropping, the fence would contain the herd while he ate his mother’s Christmas
dinner, and he’d got a decent wifi signal on his phone.
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I hope you all had a lovely Christmas / holiday / festive season, and are now back to what passes for normal in your world. I complicated my life by accepting a challenge to post a Flash Fiction Advent Calendar, which is in my archive for December if you care to look. There were times when the daily prompt in itself was an added challenge, but I kept going to the end!
Thanks as always to Rochelle, who even posted a prompt on Christmas Day! Do follow the Blue Frog trail from her blog https://rochellewisoff.com/ to read other stories prompted by Randy Mazie's photograph.
A modern twist to an ageless story.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Helen.
DeleteA fun retelling, Lizzie. I especially liked the WiFi signal
ReplyDeleteThanks Neil - he looks to me as if he's using a mobile!
DeleteYes, that's definitely someone crouched over their iphone! Well done, Liz
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandra - glad you can see it too!
DeleteDear Liz,
ReplyDeleteI loved your modern twist the Christmas story. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle x
DeleteA Spot of Wifi underneath the Bough,
ReplyDeleteA Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Sorry couldn't resist changing a classic poem
That was fun, Bjorn, and I am honoured - a poem just for me! Happy New Year, my friend X
DeleteI like this a lot.
ReplyDeleteThank you Patsy x
DeleteLove this and I have actually seen them doing this with sheep albeit but in the hills by all the medical campuses.
ReplyDeleteIn tenerife we had a neighbour who walked his one goat along the roadsides on a string to crop the weeds.
Deleteone of the best stories this week. i truly enjoyed reading it. happy holidays.
ReplyDeleteThank you plaridel.
DeleteEveryone needs a WiFi signal, it's a basic human want now. Loved your take on the prompt.
ReplyDeleteThanks Subroto.
DeleteLove the modern twist.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lisa
DeleteSuch a fun story....
ReplyDeleteThanks Dawn x
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