Floating across the wall: a picture of a cardboard box upset at being dumped into the ocean and becoming a jellyfish. It hadn’t asked to become sentient or a living warning of dumping rubbish in the ocean. It was sad for the ocean and for itself, doomed to forever drift the seas of the earth, with no hope of the end it had always desired: of being recycled.
Until.
A school of fish arrived, broke up into a shoal, and started to feed. The sad cardboard box jellyfish slowly began to disappear.
It didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt (see here for other stories):
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast
