Handmade birds-eye maple bench for his concert: $1375
Her birthday dinner at Casey’s Tavern the week before when he claimed he was broke: $32.95
Notes in wallet:
Julia, waitress at The Pines, 729-6683
Sibylla, vocalist, blues, 662-9384
Lena, vocalist, standard, 952-3392
Sara, grad student, wants lessons, 223-3892
The peacock blue he painted her worktable one afternoon, even though she had talked about doing it in celadon green, because he claimed she needed "more drama and less understatement in her life."
132 nights she went to bed alone last year because he had late rehearsals.
45 days on the road, touring. Without her.
22 days since he had told her he loved her. Or kissed her like he meant it.
"What went wrong?" he whined.
"Figure it out yourself," she replied. And walked out the door.
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14 comments:
Oh my goodness, Anno - I LOVED this! I hope this one is fiction. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!
Very good! My favorite SOS to date!
27 hugs to you
1 smack on the ass
Wow this is great!!!
Oh, ANNO!!! This is so great! I love, love, LOVE it. So glad you played along!!
Now, it IS fiction, right? ;-)
Your shorthand version of events conveys so much more than my long-winded stories ever could. Brilliant!!
Hey, everyone, thanks so much.
This is fiction, though. Definitely. Absolutely. Well, mostly. Pretty much.
Teri, thanks for the hugs. And I'll pass along the smack on the ass to the heroine of this piece who deserves it for taking so long to twig to the fact that this guy was a jerk.
Gotta say, though, that in the grand scheme of things, I'm not sure she's such an innocent victim.
It's just that when I tried to extend the idea, it dragged. Fiction and I are kind of like a mismatched couple with occasional great chemistry but total incompatibility who keep trying to get together anyway. Sometimes it's fun, but it never works in the long term.
Awesome post. Need I say more?
Killer! It is a brave women who ventures into fiction...
I'm with cathouse T - this beats all of the SOS's so far. Including MINE!!
fantastic Anno!
Fantastic! Short, sweet, and directly to the point. I love it!
Well I love the layout. You can share smacks with anyone you like, dear. :)
wow, brief and catchy...so much better than my lenghty posts. You write brilliantly!
God. I wish I was a writer.
You take my breath away.
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