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RWDrabble 2.0.011 | Disappearing

Rananda | The Ink Rat
Fiction Shorts
2 min readJan 11, 2025

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Today’s drabble challenge word is “disappearing”.

Today’s drabble challenge twist is to base the same story from yesterdayin the present”.

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Tammy’s daughter lifts one lethargic limb then gives up and slumps back onto the sofa.

She’s way too sigma to go out when she can get almost anything delivered 24/7.

Her smartwatch vibrates, reminding her to move. She highkey wants to outsource getting her steps done!

Pressing her earbud to pause her podcast, she uses the fingerprint sensor to access her smartphone’s banking app.

Skrrt! Her meagre funds are disappearing on the screen.

Is that because she clicked the link in that cheugy message she got yesterday?

Delulu, she ignores it and returns to TikTok to continue the brain rot.

Sigma — Successful, independent

Highkey — Extremely, definitely

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Rananda | The Ink Rat
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