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Gasket
This is a Drabble. And, sometimes products just sh*rt the bed.
This prompt, A Drabble a Day, is by Grim Flandango in The Fiction Writer’s Den. Drabble: a fictive work of prose in exactly 100 words — ni más, ni menos.
Challenge Word (01 May): Gaffe
“Vibrate?”
“Sorry, ma’am?”
“Details” His director groaned, pumping dumbbells and stomping around the track. “Jolly, giant, f*cking…” She huffed.
He’d halved steps. Best not to overtake her. Only thing more harrowing than chasing this conversation might be a tête-à-tête. Joy pains of powerwalk-lunches.
“Rear appendage gasket.” He paused. “Rumbling exhaust — bug.”
She turned.
“Right — slip.” He wagged. “Not bug. Feature-gaffe.”
“More?”
“Subsequent oil leak.”
“Reproducibility?”
“Ten… of ten.”
She considered the words. “The godd*mn robot-dog we designed — scheduled for wide release tomorrow… sharts? When you lift it?”
“Yes-”
“F*ck.” She turned and marched off.
It’s a challenge for the author. Read it once, read it twice, give it a think, dance a jig for 30 seconds, leave a comment, have a clap… I dunno. It’s whatever… you’re here. You’re here and we had a chance to talk. That’s what matters and I appreciate you for that.
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