Hello everyone! This is my entry to the ZapFic Monday story challenge that requires participants to tell a complete story in just 240 characters. Is it simple? Why not give this challenge a try?
You can participate by clicking here. The prompt for this week's challenge is "bug".
Rules Of The Challenge
- Story must be exactly 240 characters
- Story must be posted to the Freewrite community
- Drop a link to your entry in the comment section of the challenge post
- Use tags #freewritehouse and #zapfic.
- Attach a screenshot of your word count in your post.
Here is my short story. I hope you enjoy reading it.

At our family dinner, I couldn't take my eyes off Iris. I spoke with her dad privately. I showed him a 3-carat diamond ring I'd bought.
He grinned "This is huge, Sean."
"It’s bug repellent,” I dead-panned. "She's mine."
"You have my blessing."

Here's the screenshot of the word count...

