‘There. It’s a body.’
Kevin prodded the black plastic bag with a long stick and it bobbed between the reeds.
‘It’s not a body, it’s just some rubbish.’
‘I’m telling you, I saw fingers sticking out.’
‘You’ve been watching too much Lewis and Midsomer Murders. They always have nutters finding bodies in bags. It’s just some crap that a litterbug has dumped.’
He speared the bag, piercing the thin plastic and dragged it to the bank, the stick creating a tear, exposing an arm.
‘Shit,’ Kevin exclaimed, jumping back.
‘Told you!'
‘You think it’s real?’
‘I think we’re nutters.’
‘Cool.’
A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words
3 comments:
Oh this is great, Rob! Now I'm intrigued...I could see it as the beginning of a story actually.
Ha! I like the reference to Lewis and Midsomer Murders - which gives us a clue about the age of the boys (older ones would have referred to Morse, perhaps?).
Thanks for the comments. Yes, Margot, might be a longer story here.
Marina, I think even older boys would reference the more recent Lewis over Morse (which ended in 2000). 18 year olds now were 5 then. It's one of my problems when teaching - finding cultural referents they can remember. With the exception of mature students none of them were born when Thatcher was in power or the Berlin wall came down! I was talking about a choke on a car recently and they were all looking at me as if I was mad. They remember from about 2002 onward with any kind of clarity. They're making me feel old - the summer of 1976 was the first time I can remember well.
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