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Diversity Writing Challenge, a48 – 150 word drabble
Ultimate Sleuth Challenge, Ch 2 – event 3 – write about a single mother
The DFC Festival, jumping castle – drabble 3/6


It's Only Bub and Mum Now

Now it's only bub and mum, and the child's crying for his big brother and his father and what can she say? Mum and dad don't love each other anymore so they're splitting up? He's far too young to understand that means forever, and far too young to know why that's cost him his big brother as well?

It's not fair. Of course it's not fair. They argued endlessly about this very issue but decided they could only take so much, sacrifice so much, keep so much separated – they agreed it was impossible all round. They'll see each other, sparsely, over the years: no longer family under the same roof but like cousins who never saw each other enough. But at least they would see each other, sometimes and hopefully enough times, and talk to each other too.

But in this new apartment of theirs, it's only bub and mum.