Not Again, a Humpbuckle Tale

A 50-word #ZapFic50 story inspired by the Freewriters writing Hive account@daily.prompt, "not another crusade"
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He can tell by the way she marches up the path that Mrs Penible is on another one of her crusades. He considers ignoring the doorbell, pretending he's out, but before he can duck behind the curtain, she gives him a curt nod. Taking a deep breath he waves back.

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_{All my stories are my own, coming from my imagination. I do not (nor have I ever, nor will I ever) used any AI program to write my stories. I am personally against the use of AI to write (for me the whole point of writing is to use my own brain: that is the joy of writing for me). The screenshot is of a word counter app that I use when writing my stories to check that my Humpbuckle Tales are precisely 50 words long. I am human, #NOTaRobot}