This week’s prompt from Carrot Ranch was to write a microfiction off the prompt “A rabbit on the roof.” Challenge accepted. Hope you all enjoy and empathize!
Creds to Wild Hare (Merrie Melodies. 07/27/1940)
A Wild Hare: Post-pandemica
I looked in the mirror, unsure. Six months quarantine, but now it’s safe to go out. I stepped out back, hesitating to shake free the sheet full of recently cut hair. Could this be used?
Out front, the neighbors laughed and called to one another. I jogged around to join them.
They’d all done their own haircuts, looking like offspring of Seuss and Scissorhands: this one with curls cascading frontwards, buzz cut out back; that one tinted with precious bleach, a dandelion gone to seed; another with untamed lion’s mane.
And me, joyful, with a rabbit on my roof!
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2020)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (03/19/2020: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a rabbit on the roof. Or many rabbits. Why are they there? Explain the unexpected, go into any genre. Go where the prompt leads!
Valley of the Trolls 
I was thinking this week that I’m mildly irritated that I just got a brand new cool haircut before we got Locked in. 😦 Love what you did with this, Liz. Here’s hoping it’s not 6 months…
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Hear hear! I don’t know if the world’s ready for THAT much innovation.
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I love this! The joy and humor as we step out after the storm. Kind of like coming in from a long camping trip. Great take. Great tone.
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Thanks! Another one that demanded it be written….;-)
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Good take. I was looking at my hair and beard today, wondering what they’re going to look like when this is over.
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Gives a whole new perspective on the concept of Man Bun. 😉
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No man bun. Fortunately, my hair doesn’t do that.
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🤣😂🤣
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I have already told my hairdresser that I’m making no promises on what I look like when I finally see her again…..
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Yes, surprise her! I see in our future, great creative innovation of all stripe!
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Oh, no, my eyebrows are going to be crawling up my forehead in six months! What an inventive take on the prompt, turning a phrase and connecting it to current circumstance. I like the hints of learned frugality and joy to reconnect.
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Thanks! we hope for the best, including a sense of what’s most important, in the many months to come.
Be well, Buckaroo Wrangler!
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