Friday Flash – Mr Crane’s Garden
Mr Crane’s Garden
Every night Crane put his shrapnel, the smallest of his small change, in an old glass spaghetti jar. When it was full he took it to the charity shop. Between times it served as a door stop.
‘Look at this.’ Crane held out three pennies and two five-pence pieces. ‘No wonder today’s been so difficult.’
I was impressed. Even so, extraordinary claims etc… ‘How does this keep happening to you?’
‘I don’t know, They-’ In Crane’s world ‘They’ was always capitalised.
‘And that was the only change in your pocket?’
‘No.’ He glared suspiciously, hurt. ‘Even so…’
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18th in the ‘Beyond the Streets‘ sequence.
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So, why was the day difficult?
13 pence in his pocket – or so he claimed. It’s a conspiracy!