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The Swimmers
Writer’s Digest
|November / December 2025
THE CHALLENGE: Write a drabble-a short story of exactly 100 words-based on the photo prompt below.
Swimming
By TJ Stone of Clay, N.Y.
Maxine laughed; it was all she could do. Dorothy leaned on her shoulder and joined. Tears fell from Maryann's eyes, landing on her damp towel. They had taken their last plunge; the group that had started out with 50 girls was now three, some sinking and drowning, others simply giving up and leaving the lake. They had been swimming for 47 years, endless, restless swimming while the men watched from the shallows, dark ratlike eyes judging every stroke.
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