Catch Up Drabble
Finally got around to writing this for last week's Drabble Challenge theme at Black Pearl Sails. It's not exactly 100 words, but whatever. Gotta run off to work now.
~ Lady’s Man ~
Well, this was a slap in the face.
But no use fightin’ the tide. Carryin’ on, fit to wake the dead.
Or the guard.
Daft buggers. Keepin’ him awake!
“You can keep calling all night, that dog is never going to move!”
“Well, ‘scuse us if we haven’t resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet!” came the retort.
He chuckled, and gave it up. Settled, and tugged at his hat, shading his eyes from stone and iron.
She’d turned fickle, but it’d pass. She loved her Jack, did Lady Luck. If escape was on the cards, it’d be through her kind offices.
Not the bloody dog’s!
~.~
~ Lady’s Man ~
Well, this was a slap in the face.
But no use fightin’ the tide. Carryin’ on, fit to wake the dead.
Or the guard.
Daft buggers. Keepin’ him awake!
“You can keep calling all night, that dog is never going to move!”
“Well, ‘scuse us if we haven’t resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet!” came the retort.
He chuckled, and gave it up. Settled, and tugged at his hat, shading his eyes from stone and iron.
She’d turned fickle, but it’d pass. She loved her Jack, did Lady Luck. If escape was on the cards, it’d be through her kind offices.
Not the bloody dog’s!
~.~