“Honey, what’s happening?” His wife whined. “I can’t be hanging laundry in this kind of weather and don’t blame me about our electric bill this month!”
Glancing out the window, the screenwriter effortlessly glided his fingertips through his thinning, almost white hair.
He watched the invading dark clouds, again, forcefully directing the incoming storm.
He sighed.
After thirty years of failed screenplays, the cursor key blinked for the last time.
Mi Amor,
Please forgive your loving husband.
I arrived at the dream but drove off halfway. In time, I lost my faith to keep afloat in the storm debris.
Good-bye.
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Photo Source: Kelly Sands
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I hope he didn’t commit haku! 🙂
Lily
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Lily, if haku means suicide, well, i think this character took the plunge. unfortunately. 😦
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Rest in peace. I have no words other than that.
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right on, Milu! 🙂 happy weekend!!
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Another great story, Sun, with a surprising end. Well done 🙂 Pawkisses for a Purrfect Weekend 🙂
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i’m happy you got some time to visit, LB. have fun taking selfies 😆
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Poor guy, I guess it all got too much for him. I wasn’t expecting that ending!
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one too many storms i’m afraid, Al. (do you mind being called Al? just wondering. some people get upset if you shorten their name. 🙂 )
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Thanks for asking – I always shorten my full name (Alistair) to Ali, but Al is fine 🙂
I know several people who hate having their first name shortened too!
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Ali, that’s even better than Al. 🙂
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Dear Sun,
Maybe his suicide note will sell. Sorry, I guess that was in poor taste. But your story wasn’t. 😉 Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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with this guys luck, i bet his departing words produces the hit he was waiting for all those years, Rochelle! good thought to expand the story with and lucky wife. 😛 thanks!
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suicide note? i thought it was a ‘Dear John’ letter. thought he left his wife of 30 years. very selfish of him. great story.
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the storms of life can make some people so unpredictable. thanks for the compliment. 🙂
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😦
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i know, right? some characters have to go and make a sad story happen. ha-ha. 😛 have a lovely, Sunday, Sylvia. 🙂
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I did, thanks. 🙂
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😎 🙂
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well it’s a lovely suicide note… you captured the gloomy mood of this photo quite well.
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the writer’s last words, KZ . . . he thought it should be his best work ever. 🙂
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Dear Sun, So he took the kamikaze way out? Chicken. Great story though! You always come up with the best stuff! Wonderful! Nan 🙂
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yes, unfortunately for this character, he lost his faith in himself and selfishly took the easy way out. thanks for the refreshing comment, Nan. 🙂
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Nicely done.
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thanks, Alicia. 🙂
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“I arrived at the dream but drove off halfway. In time, I lost my faith to keep afloat in the storm debris.” This sentence….speechless.
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the final storm that broke the struggling character, Lora, unfortunately . . . thanks for dropping by – happy weekend to you.
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His best screen play ever! 🙂
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. . . and too bad this character didn’t stick around to see the glory, Celestine. oh, maybe in the next life . . . thank you!
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Aww that’s really sad.
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blame those storm clouds, they always bring out the sad stories in me. thanks for weathering in through the storm. smiles.
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Sun, Just about everythings been said already. Well written though very sad. It happens though so that’s life. Well done. 🙂 —Susan
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aww, well, i’m grateful for your view on the story, Susan . . . i want to call you Patricia every time since i see it listed first in your user name . . . smiling. hope you don’t mind. happy weekend.
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