Thank you Jules Hartnett for taking part in the ‘Write a story in less than one hundred words, challenge.’ Jules has sent in a great piece of writing – Remote. Enjoy.
She stares hard at David as he sits in silence; his phone in one hand, the remote in the other.
Across the room, Robson Green is babbling on about fish on the 54” HD TV. David never fished in his life. Was it always like this? She can’t remember when it wasn’t. She was his first love, before the whisky and the wide screen TV became his. Her lonely days and nights spent at the keyboard writing a different life, a different world.
She sighs and gently takes the phone from his cold, stiff hand and dials 999.
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Patricia M Osborne 