!!Fall Drabble Contest!!

[The Vision]

Here's mine: Memory of a Punchline

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My sister.

“Come on, guess,” she says.

“I dunno, what?”

“Heh - a nightmare!”

November. She’s telling me jokes.

“Oh. A horse that only runs at night. Heh.”

She’s laughing. “Oh, why was Cinderella-”

“I wanna ask something.”

Pause.

“What?”

“Do you have cancer?”

Pause.

“How-”

“Mom. What kind?”

Bitter laugh. “Testicular.”

I smile sadly. She glares, starts crying.

“No, don’t you dare. I don’t want it, not from you. I don’t want the ‘I’m so sorry’s, alright? I don’t want any of it.”

Pause.

“Hey.”

“What do you call a horse that only runs at night?”

Martha smiles.

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