On-the-subway-for-spare-change, “with a white string I can make stand straight and hard, look!” leaps into the intermittent morning waltz of in…and-out, back…and-forth, you…getting-off?. When in the middle of his feat of magic the poor-Bosnian-I-live-in-a-shack with-this-little-girl please-help-me “20 cents to buy milk” gets on and sees the Amazing-Magician-from-India-etc…
The who-drowns-out-who challenge is on! Yeah! No.
“Please,” she starts, “ladies and gent…” then breaks off, gets off, the code of conduct of the beggars who can’t choose which train to ticketless-ly attack. “The white string stands straight and hard, look!” Not much change, though, in the worn-out Kullu cap.
In response to: https://carrotranch.com/2018/09/06/september-6-flash-fiction-challenge/
PaperShots 
Such an artistic and creative snapshot of two unlikely competitors.
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Very unlikely. Competition seems to be everywhere. Respect, too, though, and this is what made a good impression on me if i can say so in the circumstances…
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As an artist with camera or words, it’s good to be able to see human dignity wherever you look.
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Thanks ❤
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