Challenge
May 2024 Drabble Challenge: "Sprung"
Using exactly 100 words, tell me a prose story. This month's interpretation is wide open, but somehow stick to the topic / idea of "Sprung." Spring, sprung, hung, bouncy, end-of-wintery, whatever. Horror? Sure, ok. Porn? Hell, let's see what you got. Mechanical mania, machines awakened by the passing of an infectious comet? Overdrive it, baby, to the maximum. The only rules here are standard English grammar and punctuation and a word count of exactly 100 words. I'll pick a winner sometime after June 1 and before July gets here, probably.
Moving on
Grandma kind of sprung it on us, and we laughed so hard, it should be tagged #ROFL.
We had returned after laying Grandpa to rest among the bush and the earth he so loved to commune with, and Grandma was reminiscing about their five decades worth of journey with moist eyes.
We got a glimpse into the man; the husband, the father, the soldier, and friend. A life lived with gusto, and zero regrets.
“So what now, Grandma?” someone asked.
She replied like a catapult snap:
“I am getting a bloody electric blanket first! He never let me buy one.”