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Featured Drabble – November, 2020

December 5, 2020 by Jamie

Goat Drabble
by, J. R. Nichols

“Can’t I have him?” she pleads, “I’ll name him Prince Charming, and make him a crown out of paper mache.”
“Sofia, he’d just eat it”, I say, holding my nose.

“Meh!” The goat blurts, in a voice so loud, I start. The kid has a booming, strangulated voice. Sofia and I laugh, and the goat hollers again. Tears stream down my face and I realize this is the first time we’ve laughed together since Bob died.
“That means, ‘I love you,’ in goat language,” Sofia says.

“Well then,” I say, “who am I to stand in the way of love?”

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