Monday, May 16, 2011

Abandon Drabble

What follows is my very first attempt at a Drabble-- an approximately 100 word story on a particular word, in this instance "abandon".   The inspiration came from my friend Aheila's blog.  Visit  Drabble Day--Abandon  if you'd like to participate or take a look at the other drabbles.



Heather stood   directly in front of the trash can.   She held her tray with it's cup, fries box, and BigMac box which held a smear of secret sauce (ok, so we all know it's really Thousand Island dressing) and a slip of pickle which somehow she had failed to eat.   Heather thought about all the fast food she had eaten in her life;  about all the times she had tried to diet and all the pounds she had lost and gained. Finally she dumped the detrius  into the bin,  just as a uniformed teen ager carrying a  trash bag came up and said, "Excuse me."

4 comments:

Aheila said...

Hmmm... Interesting. Like a snippet of a bigger story. A lot of thought went into a few pieces of cardboard. ;)

Libdrone said...

Dialog is very challenging for me. A still life thought piece... This was fun and easy ;)

raghunathan said...

obviously she was dumping more than the detrius. can read as much as one wants!

MISH said...

I got the impression that , in some way , this may have been a turning point for the character ... feels like the opening scene of a chapter .