11/12/06 pt. 2
Here's a short-short that was originally posted on the site. I don't know why it's on my mind today.
February 16th, 2004
She saw her husband kissing the file clerk at the hospital, a long and deep embrace that would have been embarrassing had anyone caught her looking. Their lips were pressed together hard and she could see their tongues working in their cheeks, as if they were checking each other for tooth decay and tonsillitis. The clerkâs three-day growth of beard nearly obscured a long white scar that ran the length of his jawline and she found herself staring it that, not at lips or tongue or where their hands might be going but at the scar, as if it were a path she could follow. They had not seen her looking. She wondered if her husband would kiss her when he returned or if he would keep his distance, perhaps afraid that she would catch the scent of file clerk caught between his teeth.
BWM
7 Comment(s).