Challenge
November Drabble: NO THANK YOU
It's now Thanksgiving season, but let's mix this up a little. Give me a drabble incorporating the phrase "No thank you" in some way. Break it up. Use it all at once. Whatever. Just put "No" "Thank" and "You" in there somewhere. Wanna win? Here are the rules: Exactly 100 words using conventional spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Prose only. Poetry will be mocked, cussed, and set afire. I'll pick a winner sometime around December 2.
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No Thank You
My digital timekeeper unrelentingly shrieked its call to awakening, wrenching me from a dreamless slumber. At 7 a.m., a cruel hour, I grappled with the semi-darkness, my hand blindly questing for the snooze button. No cheerful morning melody graced my ears; instead, a harsh digital beep, a relentless nemesis, pierced the veil of dawn.
No thank you.
A groan escaped as I reluctantly swung my legs from the bed, my muscles rebelling. The room's heavy curtains resisted the morning sun’s advances, preserving a darkness that both embraced and taunted me. A nocturnal lover, it shielded me from the outside world.