It’s another Six Sentence Sunday! Today I’m sharing a snippet from one of my short stories from new collection about women and their tattoos – Portrait of Woman in Ink: A Tattoo Storybook. In this story, Hallie is on the verge of starting a new life with her son, and working her way toward the tattoo from her old life removed.
She inched the SUV up to a stop light, a bright green corvette idling in the next lane over. She suppressed the urge to examine the door panel to determine the easiest point of entry to unlock the car, steal it, and drive into oblivion. The check engine light in her SUV’s instrument panel flicked on, as it typically did when the engine idled for longer than it liked. You couldn’t think about those kinds of things when you were a mom.
Ever since Lucas had gotten too heavy to carry into their small, rent-controlled, two-bedroom apartment, Hallie began letting him take her keys and run to the front door of their building. She didn’t know how he knew at three years old that keys were a symbol of responsibility, but today – like every day – he took the keys she held out for him with an air of deference, like she’d just handed him the cure for cancer.
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Love the idea of stealing the corvette and running away. So sweet with the little boy. I can picture her frustrated but smiling at her child. 😉
I like how you’ve planted her criminal past right in the middle of her present and juxtaposed it with motherhood and responsibility. Nicely done!
Great 6. I like the deep POV…and you’ve left me with so many questions.
Love the POV! And I like that a boy of three could have “an air of deference.” 🙂
Great snippet!