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Prompt #504:
- Genre: comedy
- Word: wide
- Action: milking a yak
Story (100 words, per Microsoft Word):
A native Nepali, Sreva fascinated me; we began dating soon after meeting. Later, she invited me to her family’s Colorado yak ranch. Sreva’s father spoke no English, but led me to the barn one morning to meet the pride of their herd. “Nara,” he said, gesturing in the yak’s direction. He sat me on a stool beside Nara, handed me a pail, and mimed milking her.
I woke up in the hospital, my forehead hoofprint-dented; Sreva’s wide mouth barely restrained her laughter. “Dad’s joke,” she said: nara — not a name, as it happens — simply means male in Nepali.
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