Fiction / Drabble / Challenge
A Mule Train on the Road to Bodie in Mid-Winter
The town needed the wood
The random word for the day is desire.
The first sentence for today’s drabble must be:
“The road ahead was closed.”
Drabbles are works of fiction of exactly 100 words. No more. No less.
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The road ahead was closed. Jose looked back through the swirling snow and couldn’t see the road he just drove over. He had already gone halfway to Bodie from Mono Lake, and he had no desire to turn back now.
He wouldn’t get paid for his delivery of wood.
Some people needed his wood to stay alive.
And some of the mines might even have to shut down.
“Vamonos!” he yelled to his mules. “We will make our own road!”
Four months later they found the frozen bodies of nine mules and an empty wagon. No one ever found Jose.
You can find more of my drabbles about Virginia City and Bodie over on Lodestar Gazette. Plus, a list of My Old Prospector series of drabbles can be found here. And My Will and Aggie series of drabbles can be found here.
Here is Nancy Oglesby’s prompt for Day 189 of the Random Word Drabble Challenge on Fiction Shorts:
I have been missing a lot of drabbles lately, including yesterday’s western genre. I see a lot of people had a lot of fun with this one. Here's one of the funniest. It’s by Mark Palmer.
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