Leave the ring on your finger where it’s been for fifteen years as you call her. Don’t settle the barrel on your tongue until you say, “I love you.” Savor the shot of whiskey as it eases your chemically imbalanced conscience. Hold the gun level with the phone, and pull.
This piece was written for the Microprose Challenge #316 at YeahWrite in response to the following prompt: "Give us exactly one way to leave your lover–in exactly fifty words."
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Gran’pa was the best blues sanger in all’o Tenn’r’see. I wanted to be like him, but Gran’pa said you had’a live a life worth being blue about. I reckon I’m blue after the wreck.
Fifteen years ago. Lots’a dranks. I killed a pregnant mother. But I ain’t sangin’ the blues. Th'cell echoes.
Captain Morrow lowered his spyglass and gritted his teeth in rage. Once more, he had listened to phallic extremities rather than logic and been bested by Moira Figglebottom. Winslow busied himself with the beach’s black sand, and Captain Morrow glared at him.
“S.O.S.,” Winslow smiled. “A signal for help!” Captain Morrow examined the “signal”: two stick figures screaming for “H3LP”. Captain Morrow sighed and looked through his spyglass again. “Moira, you would maroon me with this buffoon, and not have the decency to leave any rum!” He patted his side and gritted his teeth again. “Or a fucking gun!”
AuthorBorn and bred in a small town, Tony now helms from a suburb just outside Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education from the University of Phoenix and plans to guide young creative minds through the joyful wonders of writing as regularly as possible. In what little downtime he has, Tony writes as often as possible, acts in community theatre productions around Birmingham, dabbles in filmmaking through acting and writing, and more. He is the creator and co-writer of "the Park bench," a new webseries from Background People Productions coming in 2017. Tony has a deep love for music, movies, television, tacos, Greek yogurt and Yankee Candle candles. His website is Bedbug's Writing, which can be found at tonylovell.weebly.com. His first book is Bedbug's Writing: A Collection of Short Stories + Poetry, Volume One, available now in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. |
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