Friday, November 5, 2010

DWP - widow maker: prompt

She eyes the man wearing a black baseball cap sitting at the end of the bar through the smoke of her cigarette. He has barely touched his drink, a beer that he has asked be served in a glass. Quite peculiar, she thinks. She tries to smile at him but he doesn't see her, his eyes fixed at the large TV monitor on the wall.

When finally she finishes her cigarette, she fishes out another stick from her purse. She waits for the men near her to come up and offer to light her cigarette, but she notices that none of them are smoking, despite the bar being a smoking bar. She opens her purse again and searches for her matchbook. Not there.

She hears the click of a lighter and suddenly there's the small flame of a lighter in front of her. Instinctively, she leans forward with her cigarette between her lips, its tip glows to a bright red as she sucks the other end and as she blows smoke, her eyes follow the trail of lighter then hand then arm then...it's him. She smiles. She looks at his lighter again, a Widowmaker Zippo, with what she thought was the image of an orchid etched on its face, but she looks again and she realizes it's a woman's flower. She looks at him with a raised eyebrow, but the corners of her mouth reveal amusement.

"I got it from e-bay," he says, winks and tips his black baseball cap at her then walks back to his seat at the end of the bar.

2 comments:

  1. Brilliant story! Great imagery and descriptions of your character! And I love the final sentence; it makes the whole story :)

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