There came an almighty clunk from the kitchen. Then a deadly silence. I called out. No response. She was hunched over the sink, head in hands, unable to speak from the trauma of having a heavy piece of wood drop on her head. It was from Ikea.
Needless to say I presumed instantly that the mishap was my fault, that my repeated but unloved attempts to keep a small congested apartment shipshape had backfired again. It was me.
Only later did I discover my innocence. Shock and a feeling of foolishness caused the most damage. Everything else would repair itself.
What is a drabble? A piece of writing exactly 100 words long. Fiction? Yes, commonly but not always. Drabbles have a story structure (beginning, middle, end) and use other fiction devices such as point-of-view, setting, character, etc.
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love studios. I blog regularly and volunteer as a teaching assistant, coaching schoolchildren in aspects of journalism.
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