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An Unseen Argument
Posted on August 11, 2003 in Book of Days Neighborhood
Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.
Today’s topic: This is what the neighbors saw.
The other night I heard a couple screaming at each other. “I want you out of my life!” shouted the man. Words that I didn’t understand came back at him. The conversation got low, though I could tell by the prickly consonants and thudding vowels that they hadn’t made peace. I wanted to say “Why are you talking of these things on a night like this? Don’t you know that the heat makes you crazy?”
I got up and wandered over to the screen door as Lynn read Living History in the lemon-loud butterfly chair. The street looked blue, the lights from the condos glowing orange like steady, unflickering fires. I couldn’t tell who was doing the shouting. I hoped that when the clouds came later in the week they’d see things differently and that no one would end up dead.
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Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: Write about something that made you cry.
