Microfiction: Flying Turtles

The chatty Mr. Turtle flew on a stick between two birds.  His inability to keep his mouth shut would be his downfall.  

The turtle talked, fell, and perished. 

Author's Note: The original story I drew inspiration from is called The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking. In this story, a turtle befriends two wild geese.  The geese offer to take the turtle with them to their home, however it would be a long journey and in order to accompany the geese the turtle would have to bite a stick that the geese were holding the whole way.  The turtle agrees, and bites the stick to fly with the geese.  In the middle of the journey, the turtle tries to talk to a group of village children and then falls to his demise.  I liked the blunt nature of this story.  I tried a story lab this week, and I wanted to write a version of this story that was much shorter.  I decided to write a two-sentence micro-fiction.  I enjoyed being able to condense a Jataka tales into such a few sentences.  I liked that I was able to find a pun to end my story with! For my second story I tried to make a version of the story using only 6 words.  There is only room for the bare necessities, I found.  

Bibliography: Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt in 1912

3D turtle art.
Source: flickr



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