Drabble: Nero Wolfe (books) - "Twenty-Eight Cents"
Title: Twenty-Eight Cents
Fandom: Nero Wolfe book series
Characters: Lily Rowan/Archie Goodwin
Rating: G
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Based on characters created by Rex Stout.
Notes: I actually wrote this a few months back, inspired by the gen_drabble prompt "milk", but didn't post it there because it's, y'know, not gen. (Also: when I was researching this, I found this totally fascinating article containing more information than I ever thought I could want about milk distribution in New York City in 1938.)
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“Dammit, Archie, you’re the only one who drinks it!”
And Lily freezes, because she never meant to let him know that. It’s true, of course: none of her other boyfriends--well, what other self-respecting New Yorker gets invited up to a girl’s apartment and asks for a glass of milk?
She puts a couple drops in her coffee sometimes, sure--trying to justify the purchase. Most of it ends up going sour. Not that she minds; she just didn’t want to admit to it outright:
Every week, she spends twenty-eight cents on the hope that Archie Goodwin might drop by.
Fandom: Nero Wolfe book series
Characters: Lily Rowan/Archie Goodwin
Rating: G
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Based on characters created by Rex Stout.
Notes: I actually wrote this a few months back, inspired by the gen_drabble prompt "milk", but didn't post it there because it's, y'know, not gen. (Also: when I was researching this, I found this totally fascinating article containing more information than I ever thought I could want about milk distribution in New York City in 1938.)
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“Dammit, Archie, you’re the only one who drinks it!”
And Lily freezes, because she never meant to let him know that. It’s true, of course: none of her other boyfriends--well, what other self-respecting New Yorker gets invited up to a girl’s apartment and asks for a glass of milk?
She puts a couple drops in her coffee sometimes, sure--trying to justify the purchase. Most of it ends up going sour. Not that she minds; she just didn’t want to admit to it outright:
Every week, she spends twenty-eight cents on the hope that Archie Goodwin might drop by.