Driving Statistics
…It shouldn’t be a numbers game
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Today’s drabble challenge twist is that today’s story must contain a horse.
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It took 123 years to grow one tight-knit community.
Perched at the end of a craggy peninsula, they’re protected from the encroaching metropolis 19 kilometres away.
763 residents, 136 canines, 53 felines, 17 chickens, 5 rabbits (or 75 given half a chance) and a horse lived in the 251 houses, 3 coops, and one stable.
But there’s just one road in and out…
So, it only took one speeding city-slicker on a roaring motorbike who arrogantly passed one plodding neighbour one Saturday morning…
And they were left with 762 residents, no more horses and one broken-hearted village.
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