Justice On A Napkin
For A Good Time, Call
She smiled shyly as she slid her number across the bar. She knew it was a bad idea, but those were becoming her favorite.
He tucked the trophy into his coat pocket, winked at her and escorted his wife to the cab.
As the cab rolled away, her phone began to ring, confused, she answered hesitantly , “hello?”
A woman spoke softly, “thank you,” followed by a gunshot. She watched as the man from the bar was tossed from the cab.
“My pleasure,” she answered, as she re-entered the bar.
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Shyly, she smiled as he asked for her number.
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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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Logic and reason are not always explanation enough. Understanding is elusive He sat looking at the half empty glass but not seeing it, he was cold but not feeling it, he was in pain but not hurting from it. His mind was numb, his memory a jumble of conflicting events, as if from a nightmare but were in fact real. The phone rang for a long time before it gained his attention and then he tried to turn it off, an automatic reaction against coming back to reality. His mind preferred the numbness to anything else that was available. In this distracted state he accidentally accepted the call and put it onto speaker, the voice from the speaker jolted him into giving it his full attention. This was a call from the dead. The voice was full of concern, “where are you John, why haven’t you called, what is going on?” Even to his own ears his tone sounded subdued, defeated, “I am in the cabin, in the woods but I am OK will call you later” and he turned the phone off both ending this call and not accepting any other.
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Makes me wonder how many times that guy's done this. Normally people don't snap at the first occasion unless it's highly provoking. Some might see their partner cheating as the door to freedom cause they can legally part from them without being at fault. I also wonder if she was in cohorts with the wife? It wouldn't surprise me if the wife walked back into the bar and shot her as well, being that she did hand the husband her phone number. I'm approaching from the perspective of, "If I can't have him, nobody can," or, "If you were going to cheat with his parts, you were going to cheat with your parts too." Thus delivering punishment to both the husband and the phone lady both. If they were in on it together, I wonder if the wife had set the stage be calling in a favor from a friend or two or three or however many she needed. Being that they're getting into a cab, and he casually took the lady's phone number, I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that his wife and him are more along the lines of the upper crust.
Amazing
😮😮🤐 That was a shocker!!! I guess it was the last straw for him. Great read and congrats!
You capture so much in such a short span. Love it! Congratulations on Top Story 🎉
I really enjoyed this! Perfect
Gripping and fantastic. Amazing what you captured in so few words. Congrats on your Top Story💙Anneliese
So where did she shoot him? (I know, the cab.) Was it where it only counted or where it really counted? Excellent.
that was intense Kelli--is there more? i want more!!!
Wow!!! That was fantastic!!!💖💖💕
I really enjoyed this! Good job :D
Woah! That was unexpected! Congrats on top story!
Whoaaaaa I didn't see that coming! So excellent! And shocking!
great short, short story. Well done
Wow! Great story, Kelli!! 😍 Intriguing and with a great ending twist! Congrats on TS!
This is so well written! That punch at the end is so surprising, yet we get the entire story now.
Ohhh intriguing 🧐 I wanna know more! Congratulations on top story!
Whoohoo! Congratulations on your Top Story!
Awesome. Love it ! Congratulations on ringing the Top Story bell. 😎🥰
Oh wow. How did I miss this. Fantastic, and congrats on the TS, my friend.
Congratulations on your Top Story❤️‼️🎊
Wow the shortest story I think I have ever read.
Oh wow, locked and loaded. I love a twist! Congratulations on Top Story!
Oh shit! That was a great twist!! Excellent piece and congratulations on a well deserved Top Story!!
This one's going to be hard to beat! A well-deserved Top Story award!
Awesome, Kelli! 👏