Simon has an important meeting today but it’s one he is seriously dreading. Should he cancel?
He glances at his watch and realises he’s going to be late if he doesn’t get moving.
His meeting is to take place in a deserted alleyway, where he will discuss the murder of his wife with the one who is designed to kill.
As he enters the darkness, he stops and waits for the assassin to come to him. He doesn’t make a move, knowing how jumpy she can be. He certainly doesn’t want to be the next notch on her knife handle.
I was challenged to write a drabble of the word ‘jumpy'.
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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Oooo, it's a she? Then it's definitely me hehehehehe. Loved your drabble!