My people 45 x 365

The challenge: a year profiling people I have known, using a word count equal to my age. I'm taking weekends off!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Janice

Janice remembers walking along the pink beach, legs and feet obscured by the life blossoming inside her, thinking her life was perfect. Her husband eventually yanked off her rose-tinted glasses and threw them to the ground, where they were crushed under his lover’s stiletto heels.

7 Comments:

At 4:39 AM, Blogger Otter said...

What a thing, the image of his lover crushing her rose tinted glasses.

 
At 11:29 AM, Blogger Indigo Bunting said...

What a fabulously written post.

 
At 11:29 AM, Blogger Indigo Bunting said...

What a fabulously written post.

 
At 12:01 AM, Blogger daringtowrite said...

Ouch! What powerful images.

 
At 7:50 PM, Blogger Susan said...

Hmm...I was going to say ouch and I was going to comment on how well this was written. Woulda coulda shoulda.

 
At 7:08 AM, Blogger Helen said...

Thanks (and double thanks Indigo!) for your comments everyone.

 
At 10:46 AM, Blogger Indigo Bunting said...

Hmmm...I wonder how that happened? Sometimes computers can be so annoying! But it was doubly fabulous!

 

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