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.
Sprung
Jack sat. Deep in thought he sat. In his cellar he thought and thought. The old crank. No one went in. No one went out. The little corner where he sat was dark, dark, dark. The old crank. The laughter of children annoyed him. To be frank, he rather liked the dark as it was, and his thoughts to match. He had no future going out. He sat quiet as a mouse. Twist, twist. The old crank. Time in his cell would soon be up. One more turn. He'd gotten so used to it there. The old crank.
05.27.2024
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