Send it to me, too--I can take a look sometime in the next couple days.
'The Girl in Question'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Insent. But - it's not me at my most lyrical. Er. Well, we'll see - if you think that the tone is all wrong, then maybe I'll need a rethink.
Comments backflung, Fay.
FAY! send send send!
I'd love to see it if you don't mind, Fay.
Oooh. Gosh. Insent. Thank you, ladies!
Fay, back to you with a couple of questions, ma'am.
Today I write. I wish to hell Nic had installed the new ceiling fan in my office, though. It's frickin' hot.
Cheers, Deb! insent
Fay, a sizeable backflung to you, with another one coming.
I need to make a bellini, to go with my coffee. Yay, Tour de France!
Way over the word limit. More of a guideline, really.
Burning
I picked up the cat and walked away up the garden. She didn't understand things like fire, and I didn't want her to be frightened, or hurt.
"Where're you going, chicken?" he called. I turned to see him, bare except for swim trunks, bending toward the pile of branches and grass clippings interspersed with old papers needing to be destroyed. The cuttings were green, and he'd doused the shoulder-height pile with gasoline to help it along. Neither of us noticed that the breeze had died in the early evening. I saw the match strike, felt the ground shake, and felt rather than heard an almost subaudible whoomp. I saw him engulfed in a fifteen-foot fireball.
I didn't have time to register what I was seeing. The fireball was gone, the fumes consumed on the instant of flash. He turned and stepped away, threw himself down on the ground and rolled up again, ran over to me, "I'm okay, I'm okay."
I saw strips, like torn trousers, fluttering from his legs, and his scorched eyebrows. "You need to go to the ER."
"Nah, I'm fine. Pretty exciting, huh?"
No, I really don't think you are, I thought. What came out was, "Okay, but you might want to go rinse off..."
"Yeah," he grinned. "Maybe I should."
By the time I followed him to the bathroom the adrenaline had begun to wear off and he was shivering. "It's starting to hurt. I don't think I can drive." I soaked a sheet in cold water and laid it around his bare shoulders. "Get in the car."