Host Barbara
W Beacham, offers you a challenge; finish the story using 100-150 words,
not including the sentence provided. Don’t forget to use the opening sentence… The
challenge runs from Monday to Sunday! So get creative and have fun finishing
the story!
Please include the photo with your bit of flash and a link
back to this post. Don't forget to click on the blue frog and add your link so
that others can enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!
Finish the story
begins with:
“I see absolutely
everything.”
Please feel free to
upload your story by clicking on the little blue frog
on Barbara's
page to add your story to the list!
© 2015,
Barbara W. Beacham
I'M SORRY
“I see absolutely everything.”
Including
how brilliantly she maintains the household. The children are delightful,
although against her orders they feed me several times a week more than
necessary. I love their conspiratorial giggles. He's high-strung, angry, and impatient. The atmosphere changes when he's
home. The children go silent. She's robotic and accommodating.
The
front door slammed and the water heaved like an ocean wave. She scurried to
greet him anxious and questioning. Her concern met the back of his hand.
"I
told you, no bikes in the driveway."
The children watch
wide-eyed from the stair rail. She picks herself up, utters, "I'm
sorry."
His
fist knocks out a few of her teeth and slices his knuckles. He curses, then
kicks her, not once, not twice, but three times.
I
witness firsthand the terror, tears, and guilt in the children's eyes.
When
the police arrive, he still has his hands around her neck.
149 words
Yolanda Renee © 2015
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