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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2011-02-04 10:37 am

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

Every so often, walking about, I see things which catch my attention. I want to know how they came to be there. I want to know the story behind them.

By which, of course, I mean I want there to be a story behind them. Why was the guy in Reading station clutching a handful of tall red roses (bare stems, no wrapping paper or cellophane) and staring so anxiously at the escalators? Nervous first date? Waiting for a partner after an argument? Would the lady (or gentleman) he waited for be pleased to see him? And where did the roses come from?

This morning, on a garden wall on my walk to the station, there was a bottle of cava. It was Freixenet - not top end, but decent stuff. It was open, and only an inch or so from the top.

What set of circumstances, or curtailed celebration, causes someone to leave a barely-touched bottle of pricey cava in the street?

Fans of flash fiction-writing are invited to explain either circumstance in <100 words :)

[identity profile] mejoff.livejournal.com 2011-02-04 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, it doesn't. I mean, any half decent vocalist could shoehorn it, but that's not quite the same thing.
Edited 2011-02-04 11:55 (UTC)

[identity profile] ar-gemlad.livejournal.com 2011-02-04 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
It fits the metre as well as the chorus rhymes in Gold. (gold, soul, know, indestructiboooeeelll for anyone who didn't know and actually cares).