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“Where’s Sam?” I asked Amanda. “I was hoping we could go on a picnic today. It’s a glorious day, the sun’s shining and we could fit in some family time.”
“Oh, Sam’s away for the weekend. He’s completing a scuba dive of Selk Caves, remember?” She responded.
“Oh, that’s right. Then next weekend he’s planning to climb Petro Mountain, isn’t he? The mountain where the last climber fell to his death.
Why does he always pick the extreme activities to conquer? He knows we sit worrying the entire time, never sure he’s going to make it safely home!” I lamented.
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I was challenged to write a drabble of the word ‘extreme'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Comments (1)
I would never ever climb anything, lol. I'm very afraid of heights. Loved your drabble!