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Michelle Swisz

Here is our Drabble for the month of March, on the topic of Too Much! It's written by Leanne Johnston.

TOO MUCH FUR!
Excited, Marilyn hurried inside her lovers’ home on Valentine’s Day.
Watching David around his home, she realized his potential for love and caring. The way he gently picked up his fur children, as he kindly called them, and proceeded to move three from the lounge so Marilyn could sit down.
Then he moved two from the refrigerator as he offered her a drink, one from on top of the television and finally he offered Marilyn lunch and moved two from the kitchen bench!
Marilyn sneezed, wiped white fur from her dress and raced from the flat yelling,
“Too many cats!”

This month I feel more ready than I have in a long time. Ready for what—for getting over what I need to get over and letting my life be my own again. For letting new friends in according entirely to what I see and feel, not what someone else in my life might like or not like. Ready for learning something entirely new, such as the healing courses I'm taking right now, and loving it. Someone I was just getting to know blew me a kiss today, on Valentine's Day, so unexpectedly and yet so fittingly—it was a perfect day for that particular innocent and spontaneous kind of love, and for being ready for that kind of love.

How do you know you are ready, that you are in all your parts of yourself ready, for instance, to let a relationship go as far as it will, or ready to leave it? Ready to stop analyzing your choices and take the leap of making a commitment to going for a degree in acupuncture, or ready to quit school and devote yourself to the small business you've started? You may not know HOW you know, but you do know THAT you know when you are ready; you know that such a moment has come. Your mission for this month, if you choose to accept it, is to get across in a Drabble the feeling of that moment. It isn't only what the decision is that is being communicated in this Drabble, it's the feeling of the moment of readiness. The reader should feel how the moment feels—the reader should be IN the moment with you; he or she should know, too, that the moment has come.

Our theme for April, then, is When You're Ready. Here are the Guidelines, and the address to send your Drabble to (by the 10th of March) is drabble@wvu.org. I hope everyone got what they wanted for Easter! See you next time.

About the Author
Hello, and welcome to Drabbles. I'm Michelle, your Drabbles editor. I live north of San Francisco, with four spoiled cats, near the sea where I love to walk every day. I've tutored English in workshops, classrooms, and individually at San Jose State University, and have worked on the Fiction Panel here at Writers' Village. Comments and questions are always welcome!