Noun
drabble (plural drabbles)
A fictional story that is exactly 100 words long.
The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
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Jimmy was an old friend of Mrs H's family. We stayed with them once and he was bothered that his 'post crown' - a tooth crown with a peg into his old tooth - had come out. He was tough and yet was terrified of the dentist. I came up with a plan.
Araldite Rapid was famous for sticking a car to a billboard, so a tooth would be a doddle. I got the glue and, as proxy dentist, glued his tooth back in place. It stuck fast.
Absolutely delighted, I was his hero, until the day he died..... of Araldite poisoning.