99 Word Essay - "Wishing Star"

I am trying to fulfill one of my goals by starting back with a flash fiction group.   This is a once a week effort and this week we are to use the words, "Wishing Star".  This flash fiction group is called "Carrot Ranch Literary Community"

I hope you enjoy my brief effort.  I plan to try this every week.

***** Start of Flash Fiction *****

I am sitting outside in the backyard, smoking my pipe when I look into the night sky and see a “falling star.”

“A wishing star.” I mutter to myself quietly. 

I take the pipe out of my mouth, and with my palm of my other hand, I rub across my face and smooth out the edges of my beard and mustache.  A tear forms and brims out of my eye.

“Life did not used to be so complex.” I think to myself.  “How have things gotten so stressful and anxiety filled?”

I knock out the ashes and go inside.

***** End of Flash Fiction *****

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