Short Fiction #1 The Loss

“Who would do this to us?” wailed Betty.

“Any number of damn idiots!” retorted George.

“What can we do?”

“First; both of us are fine.”

“Yes… but…”

“And we still have each other.”

“I know that – but these despicable…”

“Never mind,” soothed George. “We’ll just have to buy another garden gnome.”

Notes:

  • All rights reserved.
  • Copyright Trevor W. Hampel 2006
  • First published in FreeXpreSsion magazine August 2001
 

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