For APRIL A-Z 2012, I decided on a single theme. In fact, it's a single story, broken into 26 bite-sized chunks of precisely 100 words. Each day's instalment begins using a word starting with the current letter of the alphabet and ends with a word commencing with the letter for the following day.
I hope you like it enough to look in each day and follow the story.....!
(new readers, please click back to 'A' to follow the plot!)
'APPROACHING ZERO' Part 20 - '…travelling'
….travelling in a foreign country was inviting trouble but she had little choice.
Looking down at the man’s body Evie wondered again exactly who he was; stripped of his false identity papers he was even more anonymous. Jack, or whatever his name was, had died knowing elements of their secret operation that were denied her; likewise he’d been precluded from certain facts she held.
Briefly, she pondered over the family who would never see him again; the lover whose arms would remain empty, oblivious of his final, squalid resting place. Was that her fate, too? To die alone and unknown?
…..to be continued!
Oh, this one tugged at my heart a little. You've thrown so much into these little snips of story.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing where you (and she) are going - it's been great so far.
ReplyDeleteOr would the tattoo on his left large toe hold a clue to her next turn?
ReplyDeleteSorry, I got carried away. You've done a nice job breaking this story up into manageable 100-word snippets. You pack a lot in to just a little.
Lucy
I'm intrigued!
ReplyDeletedamn I read the next one before I read this one...no wonder I was confused.
ReplyDeleteNo! She's not gonna die too, is she? SUE! You better not be knocking her off, alone and squalid and not in a lover's arm... at least she's dressed well.
ReplyDelete(Don't kill her. OK? Don't.)
(Still don't.)