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‘’I have been sitting here for twenty-two minutes. Where were you? Now, don’t come up with an excuse. When I said 2:00 PM sharp, I meant 2:00:00 or a little ahead of time. Not 2:01, not 2:05, not 2:10…’’‘’Look, we all have a buffer of twenty minutes when a time is set for a rendezvous. It is an unwritten rule.’’‘’Are you serious? Okay, if that is the case, you are late by twenty minutes from where I am standing. And from your standards, you are still late. By two minutes…’’‘’Look. There was traffic. I can’t predict what is going on outside on the roads, the highways, on the streets, the side...
A Reason to Snow in Summer
The room I walked into was dim, no summer lighting source could penetrate the curtains that were closed so carefully stretching out at each end of the curtains, as though reaching somewww.onedoor.ccwhere it knows it cannot get to. The bed wasn't inviting but I made the bet to sit and adjourn the meeting I was called in for."Hi how have you been?" My aunt asked."Fine. I've been fine," I responded.Although it was human decency to always start a discussion with caution I was camouflaged."Good," my aunt responded, "that's good." She took a moment to gaze at me as though in search for more. "I am going to start ...
Twinnie
"I think a bit more rosemary should do the trick."Meg started for the window garden when her phone rang. She stopped and grabbed it, checking the screen before answering.“Hey mom, how are you?”“Good honey, I’m fine. But listen, I don’t want you to get upset, but Mark just called to say he’s not coming tomorrow.”Meg’s heart let out an audible sigh.“Why?”“Oh, I don’t know really, you know him. Something about stock sales and shorting options and whatnot. I guess some big trades went through today, and in any case, he’s beat and needs the weekend to recover.”Meg didn’t know what to say, so she ...
Inherit Tense
Bridget roamed the grocery shops looking to find past their use-by-date bargains, usually stuff in cans since she wasn't all that keen on risking her health to get 20% off and staphylococcus into the bargain. Her phone rang somewhere from within the bowels of her bag, she wasn't fast enough to dig it out from between her spare pair of glasses and her apartment keys. She felt the phone vibrate; maybe they had left a message.Over breakfast and a crossword the next morning, while she tried to figure out 6 across (6) - 'National tree of the Philippines' – Bridget remembered that she had a phone m...