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This is another work in progress. It belongs to a group of flash fiction pieces that I have written and will be available sometime this year.
The Seventh Chance
Anger boiled within Bob-Ann’s breasts. In her hand, the crystal glass engraved with his name, she threw like a professional pitcher across the room, and it across the room, and hit the silver doorknob. It splattered, and tiny splinters rained on the floor, but her anger was not yet appeased. She walked to the glass vitrine and reached for the matching crystal glass engraved with her name. Gripping it at the bottom, she threw it like she was pitching her first shutout. Afterward, she examined the little glass mountain piled up before the door.
“Strike out,” she mumbled.
She wouldn’t need those glasses anymore, and her heart hurt. Her future had taken a deplorable end, one she had been expecting for some time.
The anger dissipated as tears streamed from her eyes.
Turning, she walked down the hallway to what used to be their bedroom.
No use cleaning up the mess now. I have plenty of time to do that.
She climbed upon the bed and fell asleep.
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Shalom shalom
Pat Garcia
https://patgarciaauthor.com/2025/02/25/the-seventh-chance-by-pat-garcia/
You definitely pull us into the story… and make us wonder what sort of betrayal could have kindled such anger.
Thank you, Lisabetsarai. You are very good at descriptions and so what you’ve said lets me know I am on the right track.
Shalom shalom
I would totally do all of that. Super relatable!
Thank you, Kayelle. Yes, I would too. But oh the clean-up and the explanations to Amato afterward, when he comes home.
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Nice! I like her range of emotions from anger to tears.
Thank you very much, Maggie.
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Love the end, Pat. The right thing to do.
Thank you, Sonia.
Shalom shalom