Challenge
March '24 Drabble: Lucky Duck
Write me a prose story in exactly 100 words, using standard spelling and punctuation, on this topic: Luck. Good luck, bad luck, no luck, hard luck, whatever. It's supposed to be the month celebrating the Luck of the Irish, but anybody who has studied history can tell ya...luck is really, really subjective. I'll pick the winner in early April, unless I forget until mid April.
Would you call it luck?
I didn’t believe in luck until I was 18. A math teacher’s daughter, I lived my life based on hard work and probability. Everything was a numbers game and I calculated my life to the decimal points.
Going to college threw all of my carefully constructed numbers out the window. I still counted everything, but the numbers no longer fit into the carefully constructed box of logic I had built my life around.
17 new friends, 3 jobs, 36 classes, 4 funerals, 1 roommate, 2 boyfriends, 2 break-ups, and a million memories.
I couldn’t call it anything other than luck.