The Argument

Thanks very much Karin. I’m really glad you liked it. Some of this may have come from personal experience…

Ah, I could have woven in some Compromise and Understanding – sound advice indeed!

Thanks very much iAN. I now owe you three Bubble Mail’s!

A glass of red and a small amount of chocolate? Good for body and soul.

Thanks also for the favourite.

Thanks so much mistletoes.

That probably is true. Once the ego is offended who knows where things will end?

Thanks very much Mark, I thought everyone felt like this : )

85% refers to the cocoa content of the chocolate. It is meant to infer compromise and things not being 100%.

85% is a bit of an acquired taste as it does tend to be a bit bitter. By contrast milk chocolate would be about 35% cocoa.

Thanks very much for the favourite KM! (And the four exclamation marks.) I was worried it might be a bit on the obscure side.

Chocolate does tend to have a mind of its own. It breaks into daggers and then you’re left wondering if you should offer the pointy bit or the bit with the point missing to your significant other.

I hope you will be lucky enough to over-indulge this Christmas – blow your Macrobiotic diet right out the window.

Any, I digress. I was meaning to say thanks for reading and I hope you’re entering this week!

Hi Jeannette, yes 85% was meant to imply compromise and things not being quite right. The idea of brokenness and things not being 100% (but well over 50%!)

I’ve done my share of flaring and glaring – that’s for sure!

Thanks very much for the favourite!

Phew that’s a relief – I thought it was just me : )

Thanks for reading and leaving a comment!

“Quite well written”!? Tough critic! : )

Whatever happened to the play you were writing by the way? Hilarious.

Thanks Brad. Oh – So that’s what I was doing! You know I hadn’t thought of it like that but you’re right. Thanks very much for the insight.

Thanks very much Zolton – that makes me feel good..

Thanks for that Mark. I didn’t want the energy that either of them felt to be wasted. I could see how in an argument one can feel more alive than they have in a long time but the results can be devastating. I think I have more to say on this, another story I mean.

Thanks Mark – I really appreciate it. And best of luck with the competition. As far as I know it has only ever been won twice in a row by one person but you could be up to the challenge : )

Thanks very much Bell. It made my day when I saw you had favorited this story.

I’ve been thinking a lot about RB over the break; been thinking about the longing – the magnificent emptiness of wanting and not having. It’s all I want to write about this year.

I don’t know about wrath. Is it what makes a person or does it just get in the way? Either way, thank god you’re not a different woman.

Hope you’ve had a great break too.

Thanks very much Holly. And thank-you for the favorite.

Broken things, emotions, seem beautiful because they stand between newness and the end of time. They represent life as most of us really experience it.

Or maybe it’s just that when you get to a certain age, when all the rainbows and endless summers have grown tired, the only thing that truly makes you feel is what you could never hold on to.

Whatever it is I feel it in your writing and I love it.

Your comment has really inspired me and I appreciate it.

Cool – thanks Luke. I built the story around those lines.

Thanks very much for reading.

Thanks very much for reading Kelly. My apologies for the slow reply.

Well that is quite something; to think that something I wrote was thought of after the initial reading. Thank-you!

Thanks George. I’m very pleased to know you read my writing. Isn’t it time you wrote us a story?