FICTION | DRABBLE WRITING PROMPT | RANDOM WORD
Gimme Five
The wise old floor-sweep
Random Word Drabble Challenge Day 109 Word Is Sweep.
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.
Jobie’s job was to sweep the barbershop floor. It had been his job since he was an eight-year-old. He’d always been a little slow, but now that he was 83, he was a lot slow.
Every time he came in, one customer asked him to choose between a dollar and a five-dollar bill. He always chose the dollar.
One day, the owner asked, “Why don’t you take the $5?”
Jobie replied, “If I took the five, he’d stop asking me.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” — Eleanor Roosevelt.
For this drabble, the random word to build the story around is “sweep.”
