Introduction
This collection is a collection of seventy stories, each 280 words. They were inspired by the first picture seen on my Twitter feed on a given day.
Enough was enough. What should he tell her? How should he tell her? How would she react? The freedom would be welcome. He could be himself again. Watch the football if he wanted to. Go to the pub to meet his mates. No more Sundays with her parents.
She made a joke of it. Scally instead of Scully. How would she feel if he called her Scally instead of Sally?
Then there were the dishes always left festering in the sink but never washed. Even now they had a dishwasher.
"You always complain when I load it up," she said. "You always rearrange it. You take more time sorting it out than it used to take to wash up. There's no point."
She was always at him to cut the grass as well.
"You're stronger than me. You've got the muscles. I haven't. Go on."
And she wanted him to keep the bushes trim. And dig out the weeds. While she did the fun stuff: putting in new plants, harvesting the fruits and pruning back the perennials.
How to do it though? Just pack his bags and leave? Take her out for one last meal at Abby's? Send a text?
Well, he was going to pack anyway.
His phone rang.
It was her.
"Hello?" he said. His mouth was dry.
"Listen, I'm on my way to the airport. With Scally. We're going to Tenerife. I'm not coming back. If you could go away, please, the weekend after next I'll move my stuff out. I don't want to see you again. Better this way. A clean break. I'm sorry. I've fallen for Scally."
He started to laugh and then couldn't stop.
About the author
Gill James is published by The Red Telephone, Butterfly and Chapeltown. She edits CafeLit and writes for the online community news magazine: Talking About My Generation. She teaches Creative Writing and has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.
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