Random Word Drabble
An Editor’s Nightmare
Drabble day 146— act
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2 min readMay 25, 2024
A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No more. No less.
A Fiction Shorts’ editor is having nightmares about punctuation errors.
The Battle axe doesn’t know about this. If she did, she would just joke that the editor is a pain in the ass.
The period thinks the comma acts highfalutin because it has a tiny tail and is cuter.
Similarly, the exclamation point thinks the question mark acts all high and mighty because it is fancier. The question mark says, “You’re damn straight. I am spiffier!”
The quotes complain that no one knows whether to put punctuation inside or outside of quotes.
“All of you, get your act together. Period!”
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