Monday's Fiction in 58

It’s Monday, time for a Fiction in 58.

Scene of the Crime
When their conversation grew tense, she tossed a glass of wine at him and ducking, they watched the burgundy stain spread across the carpet. For a time, they simply stepped around it, blissfully ignorant. Until one day, he took tape and masked it off like a crime scene.
“Why would you do that?” she asked.
“Clarity,” he said.

Comments

Daily Panic said…
this says a lot with so little.
very good.

hey I saw this book today-HEAVY ROTATION: TWENTY WRITERS ON THE ALBUMS THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES
edited and with an introduction by Peter Terzian
(Harper Perennial, 2009)

I thought you might like it.

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