Challenge
December Drabble Challenge: The best gift
Write a drabble (a story of exactly 100 words) with the theme of "The Best Gift." Was it something you received? Something you gave? A state of being? Use your imagination, spin a flash fiction yarn. Please stick with prose using standard punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Winner gets a whopping TWO DOLLARS to spend on a GIFT OF THEIR CHOICE! I'll pick a winner sometime in early January.
The rivals
I stared pensively at my daughter’s eager reflection in the bus window.
“Why?”
“I’d like to.”
I glanced at my wife who had aged 5 years since that conversation. The permanent worry lines, the crease in her forehead testified to 15 years of untiring motherhood, navigating the fine line between love and worry, discipline and freedom.
Only to be relegated now to also-ran.
We stayed in the shadows as we watched our daughter re-unite with her birth parents.
Post tears, hugs, she introduced us, “Meet my real parents.”
We knew then we had been mistaken to think we had rivals.
7
1
6