Lydia was a fine salesperson for the Rears and Soebuck company.
Why, one month, she sold thirteen brand new vaccums.
Lydia liked to have a mulitude of sex.
Her husband Larry knew this.
Larry also knew Lydia would stray from their marriage to find coital satisfaction.
Larry paid this fact little mind-his infidelities were strictly of the male persuasion.
Larry hoped Lydia could find the same fulfillment he did between the legs of strange men.
After a rare fit of passion, Larry impregnated Lydia.
Lydia stopped selling vaccums and adopted monagamy, thinking it best for the child and overall familial unit.
Forty seven years later, Lydia laid in bed alone as Larry watched television in the adjoining living room.
"I should have fucked more men," Lydia said aloud, and slapped herself sharply in the face.
Lydia repeated this action well into the early morning, and when Larry came to check on her, Lydia lay cold.
Larry waited to call the ambulance until after he masturbated to the Red Sox game.
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Written March 5th, 2004
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Fantastic!
Wow. This left me with my mouth agape and my eyes wide. A seriously powerful piece.
I liked the coldness to this - the factual way in which it was written. I think it lent so much more to the piece being stripped of any kind of emotion.
It was also very visual without being overly descriptive, a difficult technique but one which you carried off very well. This has to be one of my new favourites of yours.
You've come up with something that's original in style and strong in subject.

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