five bites, five sips,
five days a week
{story a day – 100 words}
Mabel sat in the cafe and watched the blond woman three tables over chew her salad with the kind of concentration that made her compulsion obvious. Five bites, 20 chews each, fork down on the table in between. The cup of tea on a squarely-placed napkin lifted, sipped, returned precisely back to center. Five bites, five sips, and the grey-suited lady stood, gathered her things and walked out the door. Mabel always made her move before the waitress came to clear the table. She survived on this leftover lunch, but somehow, she felt better off than the woman who paid.
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I’ve signed up for A Story A Day’s May challenge, which is to write a short piece of fiction every day. I don’t think I’ll be posting every day, but I will be writing, and I’ll post whatever seems worthy.
The prompt for this piece was “100 Words.”
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May 3rd, 2014 at 9:54 am
loving this story a day!
May 3rd, 2014 at 10:43 am
Oh Kelly, I loved this so much! I can’t wait to read more of your fiction this month.
May 3rd, 2014 at 11:21 am
Love this! Your words put me right there, watching from another table.
May 3rd, 2014 at 11:55 am
glad she has that opportunity for sustenence…
you find a way…
May 3rd, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Fabulous!!
May 3rd, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Love the observation and the twist at the end. I thought the 100 word prompt would have been one I could aim for but still I drew a blank.
May 3rd, 2014 at 7:24 pm
this is really, truly amazing. i was hooked right off the bat, never mind that i knew you’d resolve it in 100 words. just wonderful. and yes, mabel is right – she’s better off then the woman who paid.
May 5th, 2014 at 8:18 am
interesting 100 words. thanks for sharing.
May 6th, 2014 at 2:26 pm
you brought me there and kept me ~