Today’s challenger to ‘Write a story in less than one hundred words’ is a writer friend of mine, Corinne Lawrence. Her response to the challenge comes in the form of Night Life which you can read below.
Her hair was shot through with a strand of emerald green, her painted nails of the same vivid hue. She smiled coquettishly at him from beneath her lashes, hoping she would pass for sixteen.
He rubbed his fingers along the roughened edges of his carefully cultivated designer stubble, congratulating himself on discovering this hidden gem of a cellar bar, well off the beaten track of the paparazzi. His expectations rose.
73 words
Patricia M Osborne 