Friendship

A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words.

Today’s random word is blasphemy.

They congregated in the front pews of the large church.

To honor their ancient mother.

She was a lusty, kind, and welcoming woman, always surrounded by paperbacks in her Lazy Boy.

The three of us settled uneasily in a pew toward the back of the church.

Mike looked smaller and bearded; for a moment, he didn’t recognize him. It had been 50 years. Oh yes, he’d fallen off a ladder at a plumbing job.

Standing to shake his hand, the other Mike, with balding thin hair, smiled shyly and seemed taller.

Righteous in our protest.

Blasphemy appears in many disguises.