3LineTales :: The Transition

photo by Shaun Holloway

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After gleefully disemboweling the hapless pumpkin, the boy tilted it and drummed a quick rhythm on its striated side, enjoying the timbre of its hollowness.

“What’s happening?!” shrilled the boy’s victim.

“I believe we are transitioning,” answered the pumpkin’s cousin, into whom a small girl was carefully carving a jagged mouth, “from fruit into art.”

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