U is for Undoing

My favorite urchin, Arya Stark

Uncle Ulrich, an undertaker in Umatilla, understood urns and utility, but his undying love for Ursula undid him. Ursula ushered urchins to understudy in utopian plays. Ulrich thought urchins were ubiquitous, ugly and unclean but Ursula took umbrage.



“Ultimately, life had been unfair and they were unfortunate.” She called Ulrich uncharitable. Unceremoniously, she unfriended him.



He had underestimated her unadulterated attachment. It was unbearable. At the University Ulrich underwent an unprecedented undoing of his unbalanced underestimation of urban youth. Ultimately it went unnoticed, or maybe Ursula was just unforgiving. But Uncle Ulrich, unlucky in love, was no longer unkind.





[A drabble is a story in exactly 100 words.]



[I have a book series in process called Undoing, but there are not yet any undertakers in it. Though there is a funeral.]



[Umatilla is a real place. It is on the Columbia River, the Oregon side and seems to be the world hub for lawn ornament statue things.]





The shops are a bit smaller than this but there are several of them for a town of about 1000. Seriously.