Daily Prompt: Prized Possession

I lived in one townhouse among many, turned inward on each other in a triangle. There was a triangular green in the middle, holding a pine and a maple that we could climb. When there were garage sales I and the other children could run around from place to place, with people keeping an eye on us from all three sides, and imagine that we were discovering treasures.

I usually left my next-door neighbour’s garage alone, or for last, because I found him confusing and I didn’t like playing with his daughter. But one year when I looked in I was stuck there. I saw a stuffed panda, and I felt really sorry for him.

He was squished on a shelf between a scruffy ‘something’ and some lamps, fabric fraying on his nose to show the plastic underneath. I didn’t understand why he wasn’t wanted. Why had they let the fabric fray?

I couldn’t reach him, and while I hesitated my neighbour noticed me.

Daily Prompt: Childhood Revisited

I wish that in my childhood I had not lost my best friend – in such a way that the blame is to be laid upon both of us.

The first time I saw someone make a post in the form of a letter I felt compelled to write the following letter for my own benefit, since there would be no point in sending it.

To send it, now, would be strange.

Daily Prompt: Right to Health

Should the government or the private sector provide access to healthcare?

I would prefer a mixed system, and this is why:

The question could apply to the provision of health insurance and/or to health services. Let us first assume health insurance.

Without going into the math, there is a line of reasoning as to why unregulated private health insurance would not cover an entire population.