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A Night They’d Never Forget

Maria Rattray
Fiction Shorts
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2 min readJan 19, 2025

RWDrabble 2.0.017:smoke

Firefighters putting out a blaze. Photo by Denys Argyriou on Unsplash

The story must be a drabble and a half, which is 150 words exactly, and must reflect the image.

Their parents had never left them home alone for more than an hour, but now the twins were fifteen, why not?

The night was hot, but that didn’t deter the boys from calling up their mates to listen to some music … which really meant having a smoke in the shed at the back of their home.

Nobody need ever know.

That’s what they thought as they rolled their own, and bopped to the beat of the music, dancing like nobody was watching.

“Here! I’ve got some decent fags,” yelled Harry as the newspapers in a corner took light from his carelessly tossed butt!

“Everybody out!” Hudson yelled as he ran to fetch a hose.

A car door slammed, the twins’ parents appeared, activated the garden sprinklers, and everything was soon under control.

“You might like to check your savings, boys. This one’s gonna cost more than you can imagine.”

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Maria Rattray
Maria Rattray

Written by Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com

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