Luck Was Not On Their Side
Word of the day : Waylay
George turns down a gravel road looking for the perfect picnic spot but minutes later he feels the steering tug to the left, realising they have a flat tyre.
As he pulls off the road he remembers he doesn’t have a spare.
Always the opportunist, George suggests to Paula they enjoy their picnic anyway and worry about getting home later.
Unbeknown to the couple, the flat tyre was a set up, caused by the nails strategically placed upon the road. A ruse the local gangs use to waylay travellers.
They’re soon left with nothing more than the clothes they wear.
This drabble has been written as part of the daily Drabble Drop challenge and today's random word, that must be included in the drabble, is 'waylay'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful idea in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Impressive work, keep going strong!
Oooo, I learnt a new word today, waylay! Unfortunately these kinda incidents happen wayyyyy too often!