We had a bit of snow in Seattle a few days ago. That didn’t keep me from taking my afternoon walks, but it did mean that I saw a few things I normally wouldn’t see. One of those things was an old Toyota pickup sliding down the road with the hint of a snowman piled up in the back.
When people ask me where story ideas come from and I tell them, “everywhere,” I’m not trying to be funny. There’s a story to everything. You just need to give it some thought.
By the time I finished my two-mile walk, I’d had a lot of time for thinking, and I had a pretty good idea of exactly what that snowman’s story might be.
Hank the Happy Snowman sails down the street in the back of a beat-up pickup truck. With his new foam finger waving in the wind, he can finally point out all the super winter sights he sees. He can finally wave to all the happy people he passes.
But when the pickup hits a rut and his new foam finger topples out of the truck, Hank’s happy winter threatens to take a very unhappy turn for the worse.
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Cheers!
Rick
