I have three writing goals. I want to publish a novel. I want to publish a book based on my created drink receipts. I want to publish a book of short stories.
This is going to be a short story that will probably end at roughly five, maybe six pages. The word count will probably hit at roughly three thousand words when it's finished. This story has no working title, yet. It is still in the development stages.
I will share tidbits of what I'm working on as kind of a teaser, but any story I plan to self-publish will not be published on-line.
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She thought it was
over. His words had been final, driven with a hammer's blow into an
eternally buried coffin.
So why was he
calling? It was a question she'd asked herself a million times
already, her mind not resting, exhausted with the effort of trying to
decipher the meaning of a little message that was hardly threatening.
She looked out of
her bedroom window at the aggressive cloud covered sky. The clouds
had shifted from a dingy gray to an impossible black, and it
reflected her mood perfectly. She saw the long wild silver streak of
lightning light up the darkened sky, heard the loud, boisterous boom
of angry thunder, and it complimented the raging storm inside her.
He had managed to
break her heart, shattering the billions of pieces into a billion
more when he announced he was leaving her for someone else. So why
was he calling? After long, bitter months of no contact, out of the
blue he calls, using the ambiguous and tired 'I miss you excuse' as a
justification for throwing her mind into a whirlwind of old, lost,
and forgotten memories.
She turned away from
the window, soft tendrils of auburn hair slapped her harshly in the
face with the quickness of her sudden and heated movement. She
looked at the answering machine, with its blinking red light
beckoning another playback, and a hot, fresh wave of pain and anger
flooded her insides. She tried to convince herself she should
destroy the message, but try as she might, it was a fight lost
because in the end she missed him and the sound of that blessedly
beautiful baritone voice.
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