"No you may not." I rapped the fingers reaching for the brownies.
"This is for the guests. Now get out and stay out. Or I will just end
up in the loony bin."
Festivals were supposed to be fun. But not when you were
struggling to cope with three kids, and no help.
Why did I yell at them? Was it their fault that their father invited
his entire family home to dinner?
I carefully selected a brownie – not the teeny-weeny misshaped one, but the most perfect one I could find – and slipped it into my mouth.
I deserved it.
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Drabble(n) - an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length.
2 comments:
An extra 'not' in the sentence- festivals were supposed to be.....
Do you, like me, pinch your children's chocolates?
Thanks for the catch, Dipali.
And I don't just pinch chocolates, I designate them as mine and the children's so I have equal share in them.
A chocoholic I am.
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