Tree ZA34657, known locally as ‘Old Oakey’, you have been found guilty of aiding and abetting acts of obscene behaviour. On January 31st of this year, you allowed two young people of this Parish, namely Sally Mary Andrews and James Herbert Matthews, to engage in carnal activities beneath your branches. On the same day, you allowed the said James Herbert Matthews to carve a token of this wilful deed into your trunk. It is decreed you be chopped down in this place and your body dismembered and the parts scattered across the Parish and burnt. God have mercy on you.
MikeJackson©2018
A 100-word story for Friday Fictioneers.
Photo courtesy of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.
Mike Jackson 
Well I think Old Oakey should have had a Defence Council to plead his case.
Susan A Eames at
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I think it might be too late!
Thanks for dropping by Susan.
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He was an innocent bystander! I swear! Where’s his defense?
Too late, anyway…
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As you say, too late.
Thanks for your comments Dale.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if this was based on fact.
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Who knows?
Thanks for your comments Iain.
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Brilliant sideways look at the prompt. I like it very much. Clever.
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Thanks for your kind words Jilly. Much appreciated.
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Definitely a clever and well written summons for this prompt! I’ve enjoyed the fresh perspective. 🙂
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Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Funny, but harsh… but funny! I love the idea of people sitting in judgement over the tree for something it had no say in. Poor tree.
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Thanks for your comments.
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That is so funny, and yet so sad at the same time, for it could very well become true the way this world is going crazier by the day.
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Isn’t it just.
Thanks for your comments.
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Trees have feelings too! I hope the parishioners attend its cremation.
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Thanks for your comments Keith.
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A very clever take.
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Thank you.
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Yikes! That’s a helluva metaphor. Will the religious right really start to punish ‘immorality’ as ferociously as that? It’s not impossible, I fear.
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I fear you might be right.
Thanks for your comments Penny.
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I enjoyed how you told this,
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Many thanks, Michael. Glad you enjoyed it.
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They also err, who only stand and watch. 😦
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Something so many of us are guilty of.
Thanks for dropping by Sandra.
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Oh, the poor “Old Oakey”. He was just standing there. Loved your creative take on the prompt.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Norma. Thanks for your comments.
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Doesn’t poor Old Oakey get a defense attorney?
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I’m afraid not.
Thanks for dropping by.
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