She sits apart from the rest. Moody, self-conscious, full of angst. Too old to join the twins in their play. Too young to want to help with the baby. Her grandmother calls; she pretends not to hear.
Her friends all have families of their own. She wants one too. There is a man, but her parents don’t approve. She doesn’t love him enough to defy them, but does she have a choice? No, life is just not fair!
She spies the grocer’s van - with a flick of her long tail, she is off. Monkeys love bananas, even teenage ones do.
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Drabble (n) - an extremely short work exactly one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
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