Flying

Flying

A Story by Dipankar
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Flash fiction

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A baby caterpillar was slowly crawling up, its belly clinging to the bark of a tree. It had no idea that it was eventually meant to turn into a butterfly.



The caterpillar never found out about flying.


One of the small birds in the tree fell on the ground during its flying lesson. It hopped around helplessly not knowing how to fly back home.


In a hole in the ground near the tree lived a hungry snake. It watched the little bird for a while, slithered close to it and then swallowed it up.


The young bird never found out about flying.


One doesn’t know what happened to the snake.


Probably it never found out about flying either.

© 2017 Dipankar


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Added on January 12, 2017
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Dipankar
Dipankar

Kolkata, West Bengal, India, India



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Dipankar Dasgupta received his early education in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), India and moved on to the University of Rochester, NY, USA, where he was awarded a PhD degree in Economics. He did most.. more..

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