100 Worder
Lindsay Bamfield
Gone
Bitter lemon
There she is dressed in dramatic black, weeping
prettily, revelling in the fuss from the mourners. She is playing to perfection
the role of widow. Has she forgotten that she is not his widow? I am. Yet I’m
an embarrassment to those who remember that he never married her in the twenty
years they were together. Twice the time he was with me. I doubt she loved him
twice as much. I loved him enough to let him go when I was no longer wanted but
she clung on to him like choking ivy so his only escape was suicide.
About the author
Lindsay
Bamfield is a co-founder of Greenacre Writers in Finchley, North London. She
has had several short stories and flash fiction pieces published in anthologies
and online and is editing her first novel and working on her second.
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