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Another Stinking Meeting

Death by PowerPoint or pine scented Febreze

Stephen Dalton
Fiction Shorts
Published in
3 min readApr 27, 2024

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Random Word Drabble Challenge Day 118 word is Among.

Nothing but pine boughs, pine cones, and cinnamon sticks.
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A drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words, no more, no less. I hope you enjoy it. Please scroll and read for at least 30 seconds. Claps, highlights, and comments are optional but very appreciated.

Among the lidded bowls of leftovers, I found beans and bacon. I nuked the biscuits and slathered first mayonnaise, and then beans on them.

Sweet creamy mayo and smoky beans melted on my tongue — one after another disappeared.

Being the first to the conference room, I set up the video teleconference (VTC) with the PowerPoint presentation, as the first one slips out — then another — I can’t hold them back.

Footsteps echoed in the hallway, so I sprayed some pine scent, then some more.

My boss came in and asked, “What the… Stephen? It smells like you shat a Christmas tree.”

For this drabble, the random word to build the story around is “among.”

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Stephen Dalton
Fiction Shorts

Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. Top Writer in Investing, Business, & Bitcoin!