RE: Creative Writing Challenge - Task #4 - The Unseen
I really liked where you went with this story @flemingfarm.
I have done a lot of dumpster diving, not from the very last point of desperation, as it can be for some, but as a very real way to make ends meet as they say.
And mostly it's not so bad.
There are groups of people doing it in Madrid even as we speak, and whatever.
and just as you said it's really pretty much a anarchic recycling program.
people throw away all sorts of good stuff
esp clothes
find enormous quantities of clothes in the bins, although, of course there are clothing re-use bins too.
My wardrobe is mostly 'found' clothing. and race t-shirts.
I liked the hate/love relationship with dumpster diving in your story, I started off to complain but realised I was just being silly...
I miss it
lol
oh one last thing, your second and third words, should be one. likelihood
Thank you very much for your comments!
I have not had to dumpster dive for survival either, just for treasures, so my hope was to come close to representing the frustration a person can feel being in the situation.
I have heard of the diving movement in some of the US cities like NY, SF, Seattle, but the rest of the country has not seemed to figure it out. Really it is just a recycling program, but with a social stigma attached for no good reason. Part of living in our consumer societies it seems.