DOUBLE DRABBLE | FICTION SHORTS CHALLENGE
RWDouble Drabble 2.0.208 | windfall with welder
Double Drabbles are 200 word flash fiction tales. This one had to include the word windfall and involve a welder.
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The magnificent Eagle of the North sculpture, crafted by renowned Nigel Entwhistle and stretching fully 200 ft. from wingtip to wingtip, was due to be hoisted atop its pedestal, ready for its official inauguration by Royalty next Saturday. Then, a vicious storm felled trees across the land, one massive windfall twisting and partially severing the Eagle’s right wing. Nigel and his crew managed to straighten the wing, but lacked the skill to make it whole again.
Hamish McDrabble, welder extraordinaire, winner of four Golden Seam awards, Worshipful Master of the Glasgow Guild of Fitters and Fabricators, was summoned. He arrived on his huge Norton motorbike, his gear piled in the sidecar with his wife, Nell, on the pillion. He carefully appraised the job and, after receiving Nell’s blessing, donned his leather apron and gloves, pocketed his pipe, bent to his work, painstakingly reattaching that glorious spread with a smooth, almost invisible, massively strong seam to the deep satisfaction of all.
Hoisted onto its majestic perch, the Eagle was properly inaugurated by Royalty to the skirling of massed pipe bands and cheers of semi-sober onlookers, to stand proudly surveying the high moors, agleam in the fading sunlight of early evening.