Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 23 – Cyril Rum

You might say Cyril Rum was an eccentric. He lived alone at the end of the street, his yard was unkempt, his friends were one Mildred Thrup his next door neighbour and even she would say she wasn’t all that sure about him.

No one seemed to know when it was Cyril moved into his house, it was like he was suddenly there.

Cyril was marked as weird by the people in his street. They liked to know every one’s business and Cyril, they decided, was not like them. They felt knowing each other’s business was a healthy thing. But Cyril gave them nothing; at least nothing worthwhile and gossipy.

When he walked down the street he nodded to his neighbours, bid them a good day and moved on. He wasn’t one for conversation.

The neighbours didn’t like that, Cyril had an obligation to his neighbours to tell them who…