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Today's #microPrompt: LATE
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+ A story that contains the prompt word (derivations and tense changes ok), or
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There's one little bird still working away building a nest. Every morning he wheels himself over to the patio doors and looks out, and there it is, flying frantically back and forth. He can imagine the beads of sweat dripping off the thing like in a cartoon. The White Rabbit energy of it: "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!"
"It might not be worth it, dude," he tells the little guy, leaning back in his chair. "Probably too late."
But of course the bird doesn't care.
C. R. Taxon
Nicky