Distraction

He wanted to write a story about something completely different.

He needed to break away from the mainstream approach to writing short fiction stories. He’d been staring at the screen for some time and was getting nowhere. Seeing that it was coming up to lunchtime, he would make a sandwich and go to the local park to eat it. He had often found that doing this allowed him to think more clearly about a story he was trying to put together. He felt that he stood a better chance of coming up with something completely out of the ordinary if he made his way there and just sat thinking for a while.

As he entered the park, heading for his usual seat, he saw it was occupied. A strange looking character was sitting there with an animal of some kind on his lap. Drawing closer, he could see it was a man with his face painted to look like a sad clown. It reminded him of a circus poster he’d seen in town.

Anyway, the man with a clown face was holding a monkey. Coming closer still, he saw that the man was actually crying!

Just then, an elderly couple walked past the bench. As they did, the monkey reared up and snarled at them, baring its teeth. The woman screamed and they hurried on. This was followed by a loud whistle. It was coming from the park attendant, who came running to find out what was going on.

This won’t do, he thought, too much commotion going on here. I need to be able to think.

He took his lunch home.

Back in front of his laptop, he went back to coming up with something completely different to write about.

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