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.
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Passive Ideations
I make these internal deals.
Don’t cry now. Cry in the shower. Later. Today, my belief rocked, I refuse the deal.
Something springs to mind: a t-shirt printed with “I almost stopped believing today… Journey is gonna be so pissed”. Stupid. I laugh through tears.
At a railroad crossing, a train approaches. I pause on the tracks.
If I don’t move soon, the engineer will need to make decisions. I’m sure there’s a “sad idiot on the tracks” protocol.
I accelerate and continue on my way.
“… she took the midnight train going anywhere”
Lyrics now stuck in my head.