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Weekly Contest #313
Melanie pushed the dog fur tumbleweed around on the floor with the toe of her shoe. She had been meaning to sweep for a week now but couldn’t muster the energy. “Mel, are you listening?” “What? Sorry, yeah. It’s just the floor.” “The floor?” James stared at her in the way he always did when he was trying to hide his frustration. It was like he thought if he practised enough she wouldn’t notice the downturn of his mouth, or the furrow in his brow, but of course she always did. “Yeah, there’s fur on the floor, and it’s that I meant to—I just...
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