Dog Bite
She figures that the hospital is like an airplane; you can tell your bedmate anything and never see her again. Between them, a paper curtain pushed open.
“What are you in for?” asked the wrinkled woman in the smooth white bed.
“Stupidity. Thievery. You can ignore an alarm, but a dog is unpredictable.”
“What’d you get?”
“Amethyst earrings and a leg torn open.” She meant to show the old lady pictures, but she couldn’t find her phone. “What about you?”
“Retired agent, pancreas.”
The cry of a Cooper’s hawk, 12 stories up. A nurse rushes in, followed by a cop.
Photo credit: Elsa
A first sentence that pulls you in, a nice dialog exchange and a surprise ending. What more could you ask out of 100 words? Two thumbs up!
Thank you so much, Mark! I really appreciate your detailed and kind comments (even all these years later).