Challenge
March '24 Drabble: Lucky Duck
Write me a prose story in exactly 100 words, using standard spelling and punctuation, on this topic: Luck. Good luck, bad luck, no luck, hard luck, whatever. It's supposed to be the month celebrating the Luck of the Irish, but anybody who has studied history can tell ya...luck is really, really subjective. I'll pick the winner in early April, unless I forget until mid April.
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Lucky Lift
Four in a lift. Doors stuck.
Relative strangers. Worked on the same floor. I just about recognised them.
"Just my luck" cursed one.
Asked what was wrong. He wanted to get home.
Two said honestly, she was glad to get a break.
Three pulled up a pack of cards, asked us for a game. We played uno and ate my left over m and m's until maintenance came. We exchanged numbers as we left.
"Rotten luck." said maintenance man, letting us out. ,
"Oh, it wasn't that bad," I said, with a smile. And went home to my empty flat.