Creative Writing Challenge: NUMBER FOUR: Helping Hands
This is my entry for Creative Writing Challenge: NUMBER FOUR.
Sponsored by @steemfluencer https://steemit.com/writing/@steemfluencer/creative-writing-challenge-task-4
The Challenge:
Develop a story contrasting the way people spend their money.
Example 1: rich kids/poor kids
Example 2: people spending $50,000 for a night in Las Vegas and African families who can't afford spending money on a mosquito net they desperately need (because the lack of that item is one of the main reasons for malaria epidemics).
Please use your imagination, because this task has no boundaries and you can let your imagination go wild. Think of your task as a mission. Your mission is to inspire thousands of people to take a look around, start thinking more about their spending habits and actually open their eyes for other people's pains.
There are thousands of options again and this is another opportunity for you to show the best of yourself.
A wonderful post. Continue in the same spirit. I like and thanks.
If you like then you should upvote. That's how you show you like something.
Great post, thanks for sharing!
Thanks, and thank you for the upvote!
Great story - it really makes you think about all the places money goes, some good some not so good, and how different people choose to spend their money.
Right. And the money itself has no say in it, because money itself isn't good or evil. It just gets moved around and used for different things.
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A real enjoyable read. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading, and for the upvote!
That's a great story...it caught me by surprise because I thought it was a person in the beginning and then found out it was a dollar bill--nice shift! Upvoted and resteemed!
Thanks for reading! That was the 'gimmick' for this story. It was kind of hard to hold the trick that long, but once it was 'revealed' I moved things along quickly to show the reason for that perspective.
yes, interesting take, and I did do the double-take, and indeed the double back to re-read when the windscreen washer man's slimy hands wrapped around the narrator's neck. (metaphorically neck at least)
a good way to have us consider the neutrality or not, of money.
Maybe money does have feelings.
I remember reading that if you don't carry your money in a nice wallet you won't have any.
And I am proof of it I 'spose
lol
Ha, that's exactly right. If you're not fully paying attention as you read this story, things suddenly stop making sense and you wonder what you missed. The double-back is almost a given :)
Thanks for reading!
And then I was placed in a coat pocket in early spring, and huddled in the dark for six long months...
Such a cool story! I especially enjoyed the exchanges and chance meetings, it's a reminder of how money unites us all, for better or worse.