FFM 2024 2: Yellowish Brown

~ WindySilver

Challenge: Write a drabble (a 100-word story) and center it around a color. Optionally, center it around your very least favorite color that you can come up with at the moment.

This is based on a true story: not too long ago, while there was a heatwave going on in my area (and as such my apartment was way too hot well into the small hours), I decided to wash a replaced, broken-beyond-repair, sweaty sheet that I was planning to recycle by making cleaning cloths out of it. I figured I’d wash it by hand in a vat with some bit of detergent from the bottom of a bottle so I’d get that bottle fully used up and wouldn’t have to use one of my weekly bookings for a washing machine. I regretted it very fast when the water turned into a very gross color.

I had to use a booking to wash that sheet anyway in the end lol.

So yeah, this is a gross story. You have been warned.

You are face-to-face with a mistake. A massive blunder. The water had taken a disgusting color that you can only call a “yellowish brown” reminiscent of pus. There is no way a little detergent and one vat of water will be enough to clean this.

Yuck. You now have to-be-recycled fabric soaked in what can only be called a crime against humanity. You really should have just stuck it in a washing machine with a lot of detergent instead of trying to be cheap and “fast”.

Well, this yellowish brown water will not clean itself. Time to get to work.

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N. WS. Jokela, more commonly known as WindySilver, is a Finnish programmer and a hobbyist artist fighting a war against procrastination on the losing side. When her free time is not taken up by things like reading, procrastination, video games, watching series or more procrastination, she mainly writes sci-fi fanfiction and original flash fiction of various genres. While she dabbles in a lot of things ranging from digital art to jewelry to plants to whatever catches her interest, writing is her persistent forte. You should not give her yet another crazy flash fiction challenge to take part in because she simply cannot say "no" to it.

8 thoughts on “FFM 2024 2: Yellowish Brown”

    1. It was awful (and all the adjectives that Damon listed in the comments lol). A story idea is the only good thing that came out of that blunder and even then I hate that I wrote this XD

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  2. ewwwww. this works really well as a drabble and I am happy not to have to read more :P I also wrote a gross story based on a true occurance for my least favorite color. our least favorite colors are “gross” apparently!!

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  3. Oh nooo

    Also I love the “a mistake. A massive blunder” – fitting that in the limited space of a drabble really underscores the magnitude of the error ^^;

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