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A Long Winter and the Dens of Bodie
The Old Prospector visits Chinatown
The random word for the day is information.
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Everyone was stuck in Bodie for the winter. The storm started around Christmas and lasted through April. The winds knocked down the telegraph poles, and the snows buried all the roads and tracks. So, there was no information to or from Bodie and the outside world.
“Time to check on the opium dens.”
Officer Kerrigan watched the Old Prospector in snowshoes trudge down the middle of Main Street with his shotgun and decided not to bother him. There were already enough gunfights and stabbings that week. Besides, he seemed to be heading for Chinatown, where they have their own law.
My two drabble series, My Will and Aggie Drabbles and My Old Prospector Drabbles are blending together. The last nine Will and Aggie stories run concurrently with the events in the latest Old Prospector stories. You can find My Old Prospector Drabbles here:
Here are My Will and Aggie drabbles:
I still plan to use the random words that are displayed daily over in Fiction Shorts. I also plan to keep on writing my non-serial drabbles in Fiction Shorts. Here is Nancy Oglesby’s prompt for Random Word Day # 187:
Pooja Vishwanathan 🦋 has a cute little drabble to go along with the Drabble Drop random word impishly:
My Tag List for My Drabble Series
Harry Hogg, Michael Rhodes, Randy Pulley, Bruce Coulter, Adrienne Beaumont, Julia A. Keirns, Delaney Patterson, Karen Schwartz, Lynn L. Alexander, Judy Derby, Kelly Corinne Elliott, Paula Shablo, Michele Maize, Brandon Ellrich, Maria Rattray, Jonny Masters, Stephen Dalton, John Hansen, Miriam Connolly, Ludiane de Brocéliande, Nancy S Rust, Nancy Oglesby, CJ Coop, Denée King, Izzibella Beau, Eko B, Mike Range, Diane Foster, Glenn M Stewart and Shain E. Thomas.
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