Jane looks at the lonely pine in the back of “her” back yard, remembering her Great-Great-Aunt Lou, who used to sit beneath a similar pine in fair weather, contentedly reading her Bible or Thoreau with a magnifying glass, ignoring everyone’s warnings about the thousands, surely thousands, of black widows back there. How carefree and safe childhood was, looking back!
Wouldn’t it be fun if she could somehow string this backyard pine with fairy lights? But no, that’s not what her life is now, not in this house that’s not even hers, it’s just where she hides, an otherwise homeless squatter.
She shouldn’t waste what battery life she has on her laptop, but she clicks on YouTube anyway, opening the clip of that hilarious dead Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords. Everybody just wants to go home.
This is a vignette from The Life and Times of Jane Doe, this week’s Six Sentence Stories installment for Ivy’s blog hop. More fun Sixes are here.
When I think of pining, I always think of Monty Python’s dead parrot.
99 Monkeys 
There is always something here to make me think
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High praise, as that (I think) is one of the missions of a writer. Thank you!
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I can’t imagine living an “invisible” life like this, not really belonging, not really home. Very well told!
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Thank you!
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I never really got into watching many of the Monty Python shows, but the link to Monty Python Norwegian Blue parrot made me laugh! Thanks for a good story. Perhaps Jane needed home and laughter, and laughter that comes from friends and family instead of from clips on YouTube.
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Some Monty Python can be obscure, but you usually can’t go wrong with their “greatest hits. ” Dead Parrot is a classic. Thanks for reading!
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Wow… Awesome story
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