Not my fault, Jolly Roger.

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Author: robpixaday
Word Count: 142
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Not my fault, Jolly Roger.

This little bit of fluff came to me in the “chills” part of yesterday’s fever…why I was thinking of seagulls, I’ll never know…Or maybe it was that pitcher of cold water?

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“It’s a half-mast morning,” he said. He yawned…his eyelids sank.

Not my fault, I told myself. No need to say more. Let it go.
“I’d be late, anyway. First cruise is early.”

The sheet across his chest bobbed gently like a slow wake in the bay. Some gulls we know arrived for breakfast so I got out of bed. His foot twitched under the sheet, and I looked at him with tenderness that roped itself tight around my heart: This morning’s colors were fully-hoisted now and his bent smile puffed part of name I didn’t know.

I wondered who she was this time.
I wondered if gulls would breakfast on human flesh if invited.

But what I did was pour a pitcher of cold water on his Jolly Roger.
Not my fault.

  • Trudi's Images

    Trudi's Images

    lol, hope the water had the desired result ! love it

  • robpixaday replied

    Hahaaaaaa!!!
    Thank you sooooooo much!!!
    And I deeply apologize for not replying and thanking you sooner!!!!

  • rubyjo

    rubyjo

    love this!! haha, hope there was ice in that water.

  • robpixaday replied

    LOL….MANY thanks!!!!!

  • lightsmith

    lightsmith

    Oh, smiles all over my face. I love the word play and the ending too! Definately, write more like this!

  • robpixaday replied

    Hi!!!!! MANY thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And I’m really sorry for not thanking you sooner!!!!!!!!!!

  • lightsmith

    lightsmith

    LOL. I am SOOO behind at the moment. I have missed about a weeks bubbling and so many thunderously good images…. It’s an amazing world – amidst the trouble and torment that can only be called Hell are times, places, people and things that can only be called Heaven :)

  • blueravenice

    blueravenice

    lol very nice

  • robpixaday replied

    Thank you!!!!!!!!

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