Medium Pulls Another Fast One

They need to seriously get their crap together!

Today’s random word is friendly.

A Drabble is a self-contained story, a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No more. No less. Please stick around for 30 seconds so I get credit for your time spent here. Thanks.

I’m breaking my own rules here.* (Sorry, publisher privilege.)

Some of our best and dearest writers, people we’ve shared our lives with, and who have shared theirs, for well over a year, have been caught up in some Medium bullshit designed to eliminate spam or some such nonsense.

Two who are notably missing are one of our editors, Lynn L. Alexander, and the big brother of my dreams, Harry Hogg. I’m sure I’ll discover others. My followers dropped by well over thirty and email subscribers by seven.

As usual, despite the entire Medium community being up in arms, Medium has not put out an official statement. This seems to be their norm … not communicating. True irony.

Since today’s word was friendly and instead I’m feeling angry and heartbroken for our friends, I took on the character of Marvin.

Thanks for reading.

“Howdy, mah name’s Marvin. I ain’t feelin’ at all friendly.

This here bench is just far too lonely today. Just a couple a’ days ago, it was filled with friends, sharin’ their stories, tellin’ their tall tales, n’ laughin’ at mine.

Seems they left yesterday without nary a word and here I sits, just a missin’ em like crazy. Lynn woulda been sharin’ about her day, and Harry woulda been tellin’ an old man’s love story.

This bench was a storyteller’s dream! I’d get mah fill afore headin’ home.

I miss our daily banter.

Where in tarnation did they go?”

*For those of you not familiar with our Drabbles over here at Fiction Shorts, we don’t allow a bunch of information explaining the story. It must stand on its own without further explanation.

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