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Just A Word Or Two
Is it too much to ask
“Simon, I’m not sure I want you to bring Tanya around here anymore. She’s rude, petulant and totally disrespectful to both your father and I.”
Simon shook his head at his mother, clearly disappointed. “Mum, please give her time. She’s very shy and she’s traumatised from an extremely violent relationship she was in before she met me. Please be patient Mum, is that too much to ask?”
“Too much to ask? Simon, she doesn’t even say hello to us. It’s not like I expect her to give a lengthy speech, but a simple hello — is that too much to ask?”
This drabble has been written as part of the daily Drabble challenge and today’s random word, that must be included in the drabble, is ‘speech’.
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.
