100 Word Story – Caged

He was unlike others, unlike Dada who would throw uncomfortable
glances at me, unlike Kaki who never once stopped talking on what a brilliant
money minting business was I.
No one told me what to expect until it actually happened.
And painful it was.
Two years I had spent in that dingy dim lighted house, until
he came along.
He was gentle and cared for my wounds, although his dreams
weren’t any different from Kaki’s.

I knew it was my last day there, as he handed two bundles of
notes to Dada and I stepped from one cage to another.
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