1 am, on a planet far . . far away . . .
She answered the phone with a fifth of something deliberate throwing words against her receiver. She sounded even more beautiful with the carry over of good tidings cleaving at her nouns and setting fire to ever more powerful verbs.
“Listen, I’m sorry.” She said. “I didn’t mean to kiss you. I don’t know what got into me.”
“I don’t know, T. Felt like you meant it from where I was standing.”
“That’s not it . . I just . . . you know, I’m still a mess with the breakup and everything and you really don’t need this. It’s not like I have white picket fences to offer you.”
“I sold my white picket fence, and I included the house in that deal. I’m an apartment dweller now. So what? We’ll try it for a while . . what do we have to lose?”
“What’s a while?”
“It’s a convenient length of time,”
“Well . . . yanno, there’s always something to lose.”
“When it’s worth trying, there always is.”
“This could be a really bad idea . . .”
“You say it like that’s a bad thing,”
The only thing he could hear across the line, was her smile.
Comments on: "Sunday Morning Coffee Cover Love" (6)
Very cool little short story … is it autobiographical? Because I love the line … ‘what’s a while’ and the dude replies ‘convenient length of time.’ Nice. Nice. And that’s a great cover. Very soulful!
Guat- Those lines were culled from a real phone call, yes indeed. It was the first thing that came to me. The second thing that came to me was “Let me come over”. I’ll just say I should have quit while I was ahead. Grimm has some good tales, don’t he?
Ahhh..Michael Grimm…a cross between Otis Redding and Joe Cocker!
As for the mini story, it left me wanting to hear more…
Fantasy- That is a great observation, and it’s spot on. That’s why i liked the kid so much, I guess. The story? Hmm, perhaps I have something for you at a later date. Thanks compadre.
I’m also curious of the fact or fiction Q as well as wanting a comment button somewhere… Come on C…. Give us some more!!!
Khamillion- It’s fact. The phone call was made in the dead of night with the idea that I might get…I don’t know, lucky? She shot me down. Which made me think that I might have been on to something. It’s a lesson for the kids out there. If at first you don’t succeed, try until she gets a court order on your ass. Romance, you gotta love it.
More? Sure. Why not.