Attribution: Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s lament that there is risk to a writer in the simple act of walking through a crowded restaurant to get to an empty table. While the keeper uses a walking stick and his pace is not speedy he does manage to keep moving, and he was doing just that as he passed by a table occupied by three middle aged women just as one of them said “And then he said ‘I never want to see you again….’” at which point the keeper had moved on out of hearing range, but was suddenly burdened with a one-sentence novel that had no ending.
The keeper and Phyllis’s seating was out of sight of the three women so there was not even an opportunity for visual speculation to go with the one-sentence plot.
The keeper is already working on a novel about women taking over the world to save it from the machinations triggered by the out-of-control male libido and he cannot take on another project. So, all of his writer friends are hereby notified that they are welcome to the “and then he said, ‘I never want to see you again’” novel.
Please let the keeper and Phyllis know how it ends.