Heavy on Dark
April 29, 2019
The Carrot Ranch April 25, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes exhaustion.
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Heavy on Dark
Table, paneling, carpet, the room was heavy on dark.
She cited “irreconcilable differences”. Two dark words.
I said, “Is there anything in life that’s really irreconcilable? You know, outside of death and taxes.”
She looked at her lawyer and said, “See?” He looked at me like I was a child and offered a dark nod.
I said, “Would it have been easier if I’d cheated?”
She and her lawyer exchanged a dark glance and they both gave me the disapproving parent look. “You’re exhausting, you know that,” she said.
I signed the paper. Stood and walked into the light.
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Michael B. Fishman
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Nicely done, Michael. If the love is gone, to me at least it doesn’t matter what they did or did not do. It’s just time to go.
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Sometimes it’s not so easy figuring out that love thing.
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I knew by the end that she was right re the irreconcilable differences. And that he knew he was better off for the split.
Well done.
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Thank you!
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Yeah, some people just don’t get it, do they?
Real dim bulbs, them–welcome and walk out into the light!
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The light is good. (Unless it’s sunlight in which case one has to take skin precautions!)
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Wow, thank you for reminding me of that horrid phrase, “irreconcilable differences”…we didn’t have any conversations around it, and I didn’t have proof of the abuse so there was no point in telling anyone who wouldn’t believe me anyway… “No Fault” divorce–what a joke.
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He found the light, released at last! (Chocolate chip, please.)
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