Post B0aQPiCWaSDKJcQJSy by ricosuave@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #B0aFVqXDPs8oP5p8z2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:56:25Z
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Mini Fiction: the tiny immaculate lunchI noticed her when I entered the park because she had taken the very best seat on the very best bench and although that annoyed me, I had to admire her taste. She understood where the best light was at this time of day, and she sat there the immaculate lunch on her lap motionless. By the time I was seated in the second best spot in the park I was surprised to see that she hadn’t moved at all. The small lacquer box was still on her lap. 1/
(DIR) Post #B0aFZYK34UGr4rQsOO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:57:05Z
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It was like a jewelry box, but I would soon discover, but it was in fact, her tiny immaculate lunch. I began fiddling with my book with my phone and the other excuses I’d made for coming to the park, but I couldn’t help glancing over at the woman seated motionless with the austier lacquered box on her lap, her hands at its side, as if waiting to remove the lid.And then, exactly at noon when the bells rang: she lifted the lid. 2/
(DIR) Post #B0aFatZVYIxDGqItVo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:57:20Z
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She lifted it directly upwards and then holding it aside with one hand, she removed a single folded dark-blue cloth napkin from the box. This she placed on the bench beside her, smoothing it once and it she placed the lid.Lunch Had Begun.3/
(DIR) Post #B0aFcDrlaEHYVDTdM8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:57:35Z
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It was a very small lunchbox, more like a large jewelry box than a lunchbox at all, and I could not quite see the contents from the place where I sat. Nonetheless I watched as she removed some implement for eating a dainty fork held between two fingers, a little spear for grabbing perfect morsels, and in this way, she ate, and although I could not see *what* she was eating, I could tell that whatever they were they were in rows.4/
(DIR) Post #B0aFe6yu9UVljEiUE4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:57:55Z
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She ate each row, each perfect bite from left to right, one after another and then she paused, removing some object, perhaps a divider from the box and then from it lifted something a bit bigger something more like a sandwich or a small roll in this she ate and precisely four exacting bites. 5/
(DIR) Post #B0aFgJPAvqKmq63O3U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T21:58:18Z
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Only then did she place down the tiny fork and then with her right hand reaching across her lap, she lifted up the lid from its resting place on the dark-blue cloth. Gently, tenderly she placed the cloth into the box folding it yet again and then with both hands, she replaced the lid. The immaculate lunch was over.6/6 EndCentral Park is very strange.
(DIR) Post #B0aFtQUFueT6ZHgQLY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T22:00:39Z
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And people say ants are weird.
(DIR) Post #B0aGmJF0YRH61RinXE by kyonshi@dice.camp
2025-11-24T22:10:32Z
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@futurebird considering how many ants there are on the world, isn't it technically people who are weird?
(DIR) Post #B0aHYde5zfVtCqV8aW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T22:19:17Z
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@ireneista To be honest when she lifted the lid I was expecting the same. Sometimes you see someone and they are just... very memorable.
(DIR) Post #B0aJUBY0igj6oMew9A by ricosuave@mastodon.online
2025-11-24T22:40:52Z
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@futurebird Perhaps her routine is the one single moment of peace and sanity in an otherwise troubled turbulent existence? It might be in memory of a lost loved one from long ago? So many people, looking for just a tiny bit of comfort.
(DIR) Post #B0aOzW9ydJBbUHB4LY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-24T23:42:36Z
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@ricosuave I keep thinking "who makes the perfect little lunch?"I can't prove it's something that has happened many times, but the way that it enfolded made it seem that way.
(DIR) Post #B0aQPiCWaSDKJcQJSy by ricosuave@mastodon.online
2025-11-24T23:58:32Z
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@futurebird I am reminded of "The Tea Ceremony", or other rituals in other cultures, where something normally thought of as mundane is elevated, because of a desire to make it special. 1/2
(DIR) Post #B0aZyzcCjTZQ30Khkm by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-11-25T01:45:42Z
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@futurebird maybe she was an ant in disguise, trying to pass for a human?
(DIR) Post #B0ayBmpbyHNl41Emae by OWOP@mastodon.world
2025-11-25T06:16:57Z
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@futurebird Language is the stories that we tell. It is a fluctuating blend of both creativity and song. *Thank you!