Challenge
August 2024 Drabble Challenge: First Day of School
Tell me a story in exactly 100 words using the prompt, "First Day of School." Take it in any direction you want, you don't have to use the exact phrase or keywords or anything, but do draw us in with a return to school as your theme. Please use standard punctuation, grammar, and spelling to spin a prose tale for a chance to score a whopper of a prize: TWO WHOLE DOLLARS! I'll pick the winner in early September, no need to tag me with your entry.
In the Misty Mourning
School begins for me with a smell.
It is nothing to do with the building, or rooms, or cafeteria.
It's not the composition paper, books, or the plastic newness of gears like backpacks or erasers, nor that of freshly sharpened pencils, or even the assortment of markers that morph over the years from Crayola-to-MrSketch-to-Sharpie.
It also has nothing to do with grade level.
The odor is oddly the same, year after year, even now that I am out.
School begins with the smell of the first falling leaves, face flat to the ground-- the very beginning of decomposition.
08.07.2024
Drabble:FirstDayOfSchoolChallenge@Ferryman