Longing and Belonging
Drabble 301 | Breath
Today’s drabble challenge word is “breath”.
Today’s drabble challenge twist is that it’s a double drabble.
Drabbles are short — only and exactly 100 words (or for a double-drabble, 200 words).
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My phone doesn’t ring these days; it buzzes with vibration — like the cicada I found three nights ago when my husband was away. I had to crawl under the bed with an empty plastic takeaway carton to catch it.
When I hear the buzzing in my sleep, I think that the Cicada has returned. Except this time, it really is my phone.
I answer.
“A car is waiting for you outside your house. Get inside.”
My husband rolls over and with a stale wave of breath, he says, “Everything okay?”
“Shh, go back to sleep.”
But he’s already snoring. That light rattle will become a deep rumble, like the engine of a boat a long time on the water.
I get home late morning. On the hot porch, where the sun shines directly, I rummage for my key. The cicadas are screaming in the garden, a cacophony that…
