Killing Time

‘Tom.’

‘I’m thinking.’

‘Are you in or out?’

‘I just told you, I’m thinking.’

‘What’s there to think about?’ the dealer asked.

‘The ten bucks in the middle of the table.’

‘It’s like playing with a sloth!’

‘Let him think,’ the fourth player said. ‘It ain’t gonna make a difference to who wins the pot.’

‘Except we’ll all be a few minutes nearer to the ever after with nothing to show for them.’

‘Like that matters.  Since retirement what have any of us have done except kill time?’

‘Tom?’

‘I’m thinking.’

‘Jesus.’

'Get another beer and stop rushing the man.’



A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words