The City of Can’t

[399 words] You may have never heard of the city of Can’t. It was founded by settlers who didn’t want to go any further, since it was too much work to keep going, so they sat down and said, “We Can’t!”  Can’t became a place simply because folks had it in their heads that this was it, even though they knew better. Can’t just popped up and a bunch of folks just accepted that it was where they were. It’s a quaint place since nothing ever changes in Can’t. There are no new buildings, no new work, no new much of anything. They tried to get something going there but it fizzled out because…well, that’s just the nature of Can’t. Can’t is located just down from Won’t, so close that people think that Can’t and Won’t are the same. Now the folks of Can’t say no, they are different than…