DRABBLE

The Dusty Old Library Held the Key

Kim Zuch
Fiction Shorts
1 min readJul 26, 2024

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Today’s random word is Historian and the Twist is to include an original Haiku.

Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash

A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words.

Gregory sighed, shaking his head. He’d been awake all night. His eyes were old, tired in the dim light. He had to keep looking. The answer was somewhere in this library.

As a historian, he should have the answer by now, but he couldn’t find it. Did someone rip a page from the book he needed? It didn’t look that way.

Where was it?

He could break the curse, but the only clue he had was scribbled on a piece of brown paper along with the library’s address.

Keys lie in hiding
History holds their secrets
The answer is here

Today’s challenge:

Lynn L. Alexander writes about a sweet moment between a father and daughter:

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Kim Zuch
Fiction Shorts

I write about nature, birdwatching, the outdoors, and conservation issues. I like to share pictures and sometimes my dogs show up. Twitter: @kimclawson2