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A Taste of the Hard Stuff in Bodie’s Chinatown
The Old Prospector makes a deal
The random word for the day is freak.
Twist: include a recipe in your story.
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He watched them sprawled out, smoking their long pipes. And he observed the complete recipe for smoking opium.
Suddenly, there was a huge commotion just outside.
“Where’s that Chinaman? I’m going to kill him! He killed my brother!”
A freak was freaking out while brandishing a machete.
The Old Prospector grabbed his shotgun and pointed it at the wild man.
“Drop your weapon, or I will remove your face!” he growled. “Counting to three. One, two…”
The wild man turned around and ran.
“You be my own private copper?” Ah Chung asked. “I pay 5 dollars a day. Deal?”
“Deal!”
I still found a recipe on the Internet for opium smoking, even though it is completely illegal nowadays and has been for a long time.
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 # 194:
Brenda Arledge knows where to find the best view of Niagara Falls in her recent Drabble Drop:
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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