The Collection: The Rabbits

This week at Carrot Ranch, Charli Mills wrote about her week, greasy snow, and the rabbits, which she recently saw. From this piece, she set the following prompt:

In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes rabbits. Is it a family? A strange planet? Some crazy bunny person’s pets? Who are they and what are they doing? Go where the prompt leads!

This pedometer geek writer wrote the following:

Aloysius’s Wish

One afternoon Aloysius, the white cat, discovered some rabbits in the garden eating lettuce and carrots. When they saw him, they ran. Actually, they hopped away quickly.

Aloysius was impressed. He could run, but could he hop like them? The rabbits’ back legs looked similar to his back legs. He tried and tried to hop, but he couldn’t. Aloysius’s muscles allowed him to jump, but he couldn’t hop like rabbits, which were nibbling on clover.

 Aloysius knew the clover helped him once before, and he wished to hop. He found he could hop if he was standing in clover.

~Nancy Brady, 2023

I haven’t written about Aloysius in some time, but he nudges me every so often.

To read all the stories about the rabbits written by the Word Wranglers at Carrot Ranch, check out The Collection at the blog https://carrotranch.com/blog/ on or after Wednesday, January 17, 2023.

I have to admit that I had never heard the term greasy snow before. I now know, and for those who might wonder, it is slush, which makes the roads slippery (thanks to another Word Wrangler, Sue S.)

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