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Murderbot Diaries Drabble December 2025
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show and tell

Summary:

Mensah’s youngest brings a special guest to school.

Notes:

Written before realizing it fits the Day 18 prompts (expurgate | facing the wall).

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"This is SecUnit, my Third Mom. It likes watching media, and it doesn’t like being looked at. That’s why it’s in the corner.

"One fun fact is it has arm guns, but it can’t show us because it said Indah would kill it and some more bad words I’m not supposed to repeat.

"My favorite thing about SecUnit is when it carries me in my box ship when we play space adventures and runs really fast. It’s really strong too, it picked up our cow Brownie one time when it got stuck.

"I brought SecUnit because it’s visiting my home and I bribed it with my drawings to come. It’s special because it remembers all the stories I draw, and it always knows when I stay up past my bedtime but doesn’t tell Second Mom. And it saved my Second Mom when bad people wanted to hurt her. I didn’t get to hug her good night the whole summer, and now I get extra hugs every day because of SecUnit. When I grow up I want to be SecUnit so other people get extra hugs too.

"That’s my show and tell, SecUnit says you can ask questions but no touching."

Notes:

Mensah’s kids have perfected the "ask really nicely, offer media, and look cute" technique of getting MB to do stuff :D

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