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Back in the neighbourhood

Chris Hall55 Comments

The red-headed writer, aka the Raconteuse, was sitting in the black taxi; the cabbie didn’t speak much, and she was happy with that, all he had said was the traffic was busy and where he would take her to the south in the city.

After a moment, she begun to rummage in her enormous bag, noticing her new bold, short and spiky hair in her little mirror; she dug down with her nail clippers, pens and pencils, than finally she found her lucky silver cigarette lighter (the non-functioning prop); she held it tightly, breathing slowly.

The sun was going down, huge and orange-red, over the tall buildings. The taxi swung a right and another left to the park; it was Friday – almost the weekend – so many memories, she thought, smiling.

She was almost there, right in the downtown district; the cabbie slowed down and stopped. The Raconteuse waved a handful of notes and gently slamming the door; then she walked around the narrow road, looking up as it beckoned.

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Denise Farley of Girlie On The Edge’s Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt: NAIL

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55 thoughts on “Back in the neighbourhood”

  10. I always forget that these are 6 sentence stories! Amazing how you do that. I went back and read about the lucky lighter. Don’t know how I missed that one, or maybe I just forgot to comment on it. My dad had a lighter very similar to the one in the picture. (I have it now, in a box of items I couldn’t throw away from my childhood home😬) along with some of the pipes he used to light with it.

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    • I’m impressed that you read both of those. The thing about the lucky lighter was ages ago! I do seem to remember what you talked about and looked at the pictures about the pipes and things. Also, my father-in-law had a very similar lighter too.

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  12. Like others said, I too felt that you provided the perfect amount of detail to see this scene clearly in my head while reading it.

    I also love the meta aspect of you returning to the SSC&B! Welcome back! 😀

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  18. Oh yeah, she’s is back. No coincidence she rummaged in her purse to find that lighter. Only she can unlock its power, we are only witness. Sounds to me as if the Raconteuse is ready to walk down those 3 steps. Did someone say celebration at the SSC&B?!

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