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PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays

The Trading Post

The Trading Post.

Take what you need.
Leave something of yourself.

Antiques. Beads. Jewelry.

The spelling jarred against my English upbringing.

Why am I always so uptight? I made a mental note to conduct a ceremonial burning of the self-help book I had been reading: Travel and Meditation for the New You. It clearly wasn’t working.

“I need a new life,” I said to the proprietor, a woman whose age was difficult to determine.

“And what can you trade?”

“My old one.”

Her smile was sharp and white.

“The roof tiles need fixing. Let’s start there.”