Creative Nonfiction Prompt #75

Highlighting @cajiro, with the story:

A shooting star

Just when she mentioned something about the cayenne trees and flowers in her longed-for garden, I told her that I had a book that talked about it and that I could lend it to her, which she accepted with much excitement. So we said goodbye and I went back to my house since there was no more time to visit my friends.

Curator's comment :

cajiro has us in his control as he writes his CNF piece. It is about love that never has the chance to be fully embraced. He meets a girl casually one day. They form a tentative connection, but little weight is placed on this encounter. As time passes they meet a few more times and their compatibility becomes evident. Cajiro is in love, he thinks, but he hesitates to define love. He goes to her house one day to lend her a book. She is not well and cannot take it. He returns many times, but does not see her again. Not until months pass does he encounter a man coming out of her house with suitcases. The man tells Cajiro that the young woman died, months before.

The Free Dictionary describes the idiom thus : Fleetingly, without having any significant, lasting, or apparent impact on someone or something.

• He seemed so unconcerned after he lost his job. I thought he'd be devastated, but it was like water off a duck's back!
• I envied my friend for her nonchalant attitude; she took criticism as if it were water off a duck's tail!

Tell us about it! And remember to integrate storytelling elements like characters, scene setting, dialogue and action to bring your story to life!

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