savings and investment

savings and investment

fiction
edward w pritchard

Roberto knew in his heart and head that the money he had planted in the small plot along the corner fence of his yard would never grow.

After digging and tilling and raking however; Roberto nevertheless got up every morning at 5AM and watered and inspected the coins he had planted some time ago. He tended to the task rain or shine, sick or well, and besides the exercise and well being it gave him, he often hoped and planned what he would do with the money after it grew from coins into specie and currency.

Sometimes when Roberto was away from his small plot of planted coins he would momentarily become anxious for the safety of the coins themselves for he often saw large birds of prey soaring overhead near his back yard plot of coins and he sometimes thought he saw the large birds of prey eying his nest egg.

Every morning at 5AM Roberto got up and tended to the small plot of coins he had planted along the corner fence in the rear of his yard.