Flash Post 42!
“Button, I just tried it out! What you would’ve asked. Just letting myself go and feeling that I have the best life imaginable!”
Flash Post 41!
“Button, go back and read Flash Post 26. It talks about a frail dog trudging slowly up the incline just next lane to where we live. She was called Rani and she was loved and cared by everybody living in the locality.”
December 31. “The last day of the year is going to get over in exactly 54 minutes as of now, Button, and we’re lucky we’re going to see the birth of a new year.”
“Amazing. And thanks for that bear hug you gave me this morning. It felt so good, I wish you hadn’t let me go.”
Flash Post 40!
“Button, who do you think scolded this bundle of joy! From the look of it, I feel he’s been punished for having done some forbidden stuff!?
December 30. “Now you’re all clean and sparkling. Feeling good?”
“Yes. There was a lot of dust inside my ears which made me itch, inside my nose which had me sneezing often.”
December 29. “Button, I saw a beautiful sight on my way to the club this evening—
a stray, who looked very much like Rani but thinner, lay sprawled on her back and was taking a roll in the dust at the corner of the street. She was either taking a dust bath or scratching herself but she looked so cheerful and happy that I turned back to look at her.”
Flash Post 39!
“Button, I don’t know how this little gem of a story escaped me but here it is: a much-worn pyjama belonging to my elder daughter kept tearing again and again and again till she was in tears and very frustrated! Dost, the paterfamilias, had to come to the fore and offered to stitch or better still, darn the pjs for her.”
December 28. “I saw your smiling face when I looked in on you this morning.
You must be really happy to have the door to your room wide open now. Another day when they take off the partition entirely and I’ll be able to give you a tight hug.”
Flash Post 38!
“Button, what’s happening to humans! Why are they suddenly becoming so heartless and cruel!
This 8-week old rhino was found cowering in the shade of a car after her mother was killed by suspected poachers in South Africa. She was dehydrated, severely wounded and emaciated as she approached this vehicle in desperate need of rest.”