Words That Came Back to Bite Him

Carole Olsen
Fiction Shorts
Published in
1 min readJun 2, 2024

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Random word for today: Snaggletooth.

Photo by Lino Jacob on Unsplash

Drabbles are short — exactly 100 words. Please stay on these pages for thirty seconds or more so the stories are counted as read. Then, feel free to highlight, clap, or comment — let me know you’ve been here. Thank you!

Every day, eight-year-old Donny made Joann cry on the playground, calling her a Snaggletooth. Joann’s protruding canine teeth were very noticeable.

Joann was happy to go to a different school than Donny, starting in sixth grade.

Years later, Donny was enamored by a girl he saw at Starbucks. To break the ice, he approached her and said she looked familiar.

Years of orthodontics had made Joann’s smile lovely as she flashed it at Donny.

“Are you looking for Snaggletooth?” Joann asked, to Donny’s surprise.

“Here, bite this!” she said as she threw her empty cup in his face.

Thank you for reading my Drabble! Here is a Drabble with the same Random Word by Jonny Masters that is really good.

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Carole Olsen
Fiction Shorts

Author, Freelance Writer, Loves Animals and Selective Humans.