The couple talked over the latest movie they’d seen as Claire dished up the pie and ice cream. “It was a fine movie,” the husband said, “but I didn’t believe the ending.” George was a writer and tended to pause as if waiting for his audience to catch up.
“Really? Of course with a lead like Helen Mirren, what’s not to believe?” Claire tended to take her beloved’s tangents with a few grains of salt to keep peace in the house. She just didn’t feel anything as seriously as he seemed to, anyway.
“Well, women don’t have that kind of killer instinct.”
”Well, okay, maybe not with a golf club. But there are plenty of...homely ways to do someone in.”
She says this lightly, but is hurt when he declines another slice of pie.
ooo, erika. I'd change one word. Hurt to disappointed in the last line--it's more telling.
Or am I reading something in you didn't intend? Again?
If you are, then I am, too, Bev. I'm surprised at how many of these drabbles have taken a dark turn. I'm enjoying the heck out of them.
But it's not No yet. It's still just O. They should call it NaOWriMo, for the nonce.
It doesn't stand for November. It stands for Novel.
Oh, that's right. It's so linked with November in my mind, I'd forgotten that.
sheesh, can't even be truthy around here
It's so linked with November in my mind, I'd forgotten that.
Yes, I thought the Mo was always No.
At any rate, I think that I'm going to fail to do it again this year!
It starts Nov 1, but you can sign up now (I'm looking at doing it with my class)
Hey, new and exciting failure options! This year I have absolutely no chance of getting it done, because I'm going to be traveling three out of the four available weeks. So I should try it! No pressure, right? And who knows, maybe I'll get a ton of writing done sitting at my convention booth.
