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This week’s prompt is …it was 50 years ago… plus 100 words.
Knots
“Birdie.” Monika halts, hands clasped and eyes narrowed. “Birdie.”
“Huh?” The blonde’s hand snakes to her throat and squeezes the skin. “What?”
“Where were you sweetie?” Monika touches her sister’s shoulder.
“What?” She chews her bottom lip and continues staring through the canopied window.
“Tell me. Please. Why are you tied up in knots?”
Birdie twists around, a smile quivers on her lined face. “It was 50 years ago…”
Monika blinks, and blinks again. “Oh, sweetie. I’m—”
“Mike jilted me and now he wants to meet for coffee. I despise Facebook.”
“Will you go?”
“You’re kidding, right?”
“The problem’s you want to—don’t you?”