Change – Six Sentence Story

Ocean and Clouds and Trees

As Greg approached the store a woman sitting by the streetlight asked him for a dollar and he gave her one.

Inside the store Greg bought a single Christmas card for Bill who called him the day before from a distant part of the country complaining that no one wanted anything to do with him anymore. Greg knew long ago that the toxicity of alcohol had been triggering Bill’s eruptions of deluded omnipotence and he was even beginning to become aware of the devious sources manipulating his own personality. Without any expectation that what he was about to do would do any good Greg picked a card that expressed a humble message of joy and he decided to call Bill back on Christmas Eve to see how he was doing.

After paying for the card Greg saw a dollar bill in the change he received and gave it to the woman on the sidewalk. She tucked this additional treasure away with the others.

Denise offers the prompt word “change” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Crystal Grimes is hosting a Holiday Blogging Party to which I am linking this post.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

30 thoughts on “Change – Six Sentence Story”

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  6. paying forward is a great concept and as difficult in practice as it is rewarding
    requires that most difficult of simple things, cultivating and practicing faith…
    thoughtful Six, yo

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    1. He may or just reached a point where he realized he should. I like how the character in your story dropped those last coins in the Salvation Army collection. Our stories are similar.

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