Someone else could maybe Drabble up, so I don't feel like a random unicorn murderer?

Someone else could maybe Drabble up, so I don't feel like a random unicorn murderer?

Sins of the Fathers

In the railroad yards, men settled their differences with fists and insults. They worked with a wrench in one fist and a cigarette in the other, the smoke lost in the miasma of coal dust and then diesel fumes. The grandfather treated his sons with the same rough disciple, and one day insults between two sons turned to shoving, a head hitting a table corner, and death. In their horror at his father’s death, the family indulged his son. He grew up to look for easy answers and quick money and to fall to the same tumor that gnawed his grandfather’s chest.

Great drabbles! Did I miss a prompt, or are these unrelated?

nice, Ginger! I like how it starts as a wide perspective and zooms in to end with a tight focus on one person.

Wolf, it's unprompted - jump in!

free-floating drabbles - nice!

And Sox - I thought birthday party clowns were scary ... now I have a new nightmare. Can't thank you enough.

... now I have a new nightmare.

you and me both, Todd.

Indirection

One labcoat was shouting numbers, while another handed various shiny items to a third. Something kept beeping. Shifting white figures huddled over her, on the inside of the pale blue partitions. I strained to see my wife, but could only glimpse tiny swatches of paisley hospital garb. I sat and waited for someone to tell me what to do.

I was handed the baby. Swaddled, with eyes half-open. I looked up to catch the younger nurse looking away. The doctor came over to say she was so sorry. I nodded and waited for someone to tell me what to do.

Chapters: Should I think long or short or what?

I don't think there's a right size for a chapter. Long enough to end in places that make the reader want to say "Okay, one more chapter."

I don't know where that is.