Dad told me when he was my age the frogs was so thick that you could fill up three buckets in an hour.
These days you’re lucky to gig two frogs a week.
Dad says it’s the pesticides, but I wonder if they just didn’t get greedy back in the old days.
Every story I hear about them times is how they all had plenty of everything and nobody ever starved.
They tell those stories so often it’s like they’re trying to convince themselves it really happened.
True or not, hearing those tales don’t make me less hungry.
I love the voice in this, and I can really see him standing on the edge of the water, still hungry.
Dear J Hardy,
Great voice that sets the tone. Oh those pesticides…what evil have we brought upon ourselves? Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I join the others, the voice is very compelling. It is easy to picture a scene and what a sad scene that is. Nicely done.
Yes, all the tales of past plenty are not going to fill an empty belly. Good one.
The past robbed the present – and always will. Tough for the grandchildren.
Well told. Great narrative voice, and a tragic point to make.
Strange story but I really liked it – it definitely feels hungry, and it feels like there’s a shadow of another story just underneath the surface.
I think we saw similar dystopia in this landscape… I guess it can be hard to believe in the end.
Such a sad tale. Destruction of habitat, pesticides, over-exploitation… and it’s always others who have to pay the price.
Great voice. Such quiet despair.
The first person narrative works wonderfully in this.
I didn’t mean to be anonymous – sorry!
Like many fellow bloggers commented previously, you did a great job with the narrator’s voice. I can picture the scene really well along with the narrator (who I picture as a little boy) hunched over the lake, peering through for some hint that a frog is hiding just below the water lily. Well done!
Nice use of colloquial language.
Great voice and poignant story. Nicely done!