Foolish Games

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She stares into her bathroom mirror, a smug smile upon her face.  She did it!  She revealed herself to her lover’s wife during the celebration of their twentieth wedding anniversary.  A posh restaurant, a shared bottle of champagne, live piano music…  Perfect, except for the unexpected guest.  She giggles at the recent memory.  He and his wife, sitting at an intimate little table in the corner, deep in whispered conversation.  His crumbling facade as he witnesses her approach.  Her smile falters a bit recalling the cold expression in the wife’s eyes.  No matter, he will be all hers now.  Her smile broadens.   

But that smile was the last smile to come upon her face. Awaiting his arrival, she turns on the television for distraction. A breaking news story publicizes her lover’s portrait, murdered outside a trendy restaurant. A manhunt underway for the suspected murderer.

dVerse Prosery — January 15, hosted by Lisa (msjadeli)

Lisa prompts us to write a piece of prose up to 144 words, incorporating the line: “But that smile was the last smile to come upon her face.” A line from the heart-wrenching Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall. 

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28 thoughts on “Foolish Games”

  8. That was completely unexpected! I love the way you built it up, from one point of view, and the adjectives used to influence the reader’s opinion: smug, posh, unexpected, intimate, recent, whispered, crumbling, and especially the ‘cold expression in the wife’s eye’.

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