Seriously, Mother!

Drabble 310 | Murder

Nancy Oglesby
Fiction Shorts
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2 min readNov 5, 2024

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Today’s assignment was to write a drabble, exactly 100 words, using the word murder, and starting with, Seriously, Mother…

If you stay on the page for 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom, and clap, comment, and/or respond, I get paid!

“Seriously, Mother!

“Dad! I’m going to murder her!

“Couldn’t you try to be normal?

“Why can’t you be like Kahlil Gibran’s mother? Listen to this, ‘Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.’

“Yeesh!

“And, Debasish Mridha waxed poetic, ‘A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.’

“Monster sunflower is more like it! Fresh flower my ass!

Sorry, Dad!

“Some unknown dude wrote, ‘A mother’s hug lasts long after she let’s go.’

“Yeah, unknown because they were suffocated by a boa constrictor!

“No!

Dad!

“No!

“You cannot wear your 80s prom dress to my wedding!”

Today’s investments brought laughs and wisdom!

A look at how debts are handled in the future comes from Jennifer Morrison.

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