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Drabble a Day 12: Abbott and Costello Meet the Drabble
A Drabble a Day Words for 3/18–3/24
We open on an old manor set deep in the moors of… somewhere that has moors. A lot of moors. Probably Scotland. Or England. Look, it doesn’t matter, this is not the kind of movie that’s overly concerned with details…everything is in black and white.
We swoop in through an open window and find ourselves in a large study. There, we see a man hunched over a writing desk. He is desperately flipping through legal books, trying to figure out just how fucked he would be if, say, he included two very famous but long dead comedians in his newest piece. Whoever the cinematographer is finds a subtle, artful way to convey the war raging inside of him. It is a war between the fact that he absolutely cannot afford a lawsuit and the fact that his ADHD makes reading legal texts virtually impossible.
Eventually, the armies of ADHD win the day. Thanks, mostly, to the poor impulse control division.
Our hero cries out “EUREKA! Hey…that was a word from last week. That’s so cool, who woulda guessed?”
His enthusiasm wanes considerably upon realizing he no longer has the faintest idea where he was going with this bit, or why he’s almost positive Bela…
