Thanks to Lisa Fox for this week’s Friday-Fictioneers prompt, and I sensed a loneliness in the bar, waiting for something to happen.
Our host Rochelle would enjoy your visit to her site and also you can read more 100-word contributions based on the prompt, HERE.
A Novel Apparition
After the writing group session, Mary stood at the window for inspiration.
She was struggling with her novel ending.
How can she make Sam walk into her trap and kiss her?
She adores her character, but his Cessna disappeared in chapter three with wreckage found floating off St Thomas.
She searched the Caribbean and in chapter twenty-one she sighted him off Cuba fishing with Hemmingway.
In chapter thirty-two, Sam smuggled submachine guns to Papa Doc and fled to Miami.
She was a CIA agent, and his school sweetheart.
Mary’s legs were shaking as Sam arrived. He kissed her.
Everyone applauded.
James McEwan 