‘You have to do something,’ the woman said. ‘It’s disgusting.’‘What exactly do you think I should do?’
‘Close them down. Or at least ask them to clean the place up. You’re the environmental health officer, you tell me.’
‘It’s a farm, Mrs Doyle. You’re living in the countryside. Farms smell of ... of farms.’
‘Well, it’s unhygienic. You can practically taste the pong. My washing reeks of it. We didn’t pay a fortune to live here for the place to be smelling like a pig sty.’
‘You can’t make animals wear deodorant.’
‘It’s uncivilised.’
‘It’s nature.’
‘Well it stinks.’
A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words.
2 comments:
Rob - Yes, indeed, humans want what they want. But they don't want any inconvenience about it! Well done
Nicely told, Rob. I have to try this sometime.
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