Apricots and Boot Polish

Friday, February 15, 2008 | comments (3)
I've decided to try a new recurring feature here. It'll be called Fiction Fridays. And, true to the name, it will involve fiction and it will fall on the day of the week called ... Friday. God I'm creative, sometimes. Anyway, these posts will be drafts or snippets of drafts. Sometimes, I suspect, they'll fall under the category of "Very Short Fiction." Like these. But hopefully whatever these end up being, the routine will help to get things flowing again, and if it doesn't, well, then maybe the whole thing will be short-lived. We shall see.

So I'll kick this off with a story I wrote some time ago when j and I were doing this fiction-writing back-and-forth thing. Some of you may have read it before. But it's been modified and edited so it's worth another read, I hope.

Okay, here goes...Apricots and Boot Polish ...


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Comments

marvelous.

not sure if you're asking for constructive criticism, but everything up to "let me be clear" was a little confusing and difficult to get through, too much 'setting the scene' for my taste. but immediately after "let me be clear," i was hooked.

Posted by helena on Feb 15, 2008 at 1:18:04 PM
Thanks for the feedback, helena. Always open to constructive criticism. Especially when it includes the word 'marvelous.' ;-)

Posted by rothko on Feb 16, 2008 at 9:53:44 AM
i always loved this one. especially the end.

Posted by j on Feb 16, 2008 at 11:18:08 AM

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