Day 3 of my 2023 drabble-a-day challenge! Here is today’s drabble:

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim was lightning fast.

Lucky Jim had a wicked sharp knife.

Lucky Jim cut the throats of a thousand soldiers.

Lucky Jim was never caught.

The occupying soldiers imposed curfews. They randomly searched men in the streets. They arrested half the men in the town. They never found Lucky Jim.

One day, old Mr Ephraim announced that, in his youth, he'd been Lucky Jim. No-one saw who cut his throat that night.

Under her blanket, by the fire, my grandmother nodded. "Ephraim was dying. Legends cannot be allowed to die."

My mother yawned, and stretched, and began making breakfast.

This is one of those stories where I do fear that I’ve taken out slightly too much to get it under the word limit. Let me know what you think!