Hi, here’s another piece of 20 minute writing prompt fiction. Unchanged except for typos, punctuation and deletions. The prompts are below the piece. I also decided in advance that it had to start and finish with the same line
Before I let you get to it: I finished draft 2 of my work in progress yesterday! Woo!
The door slammed. Cups, plates and cutlery jumped on the kitchen table. One plate toppled over, smashed. She was gone. For now. Jack released a sigh of air, pent up throughout the argument. Quietly in case she came back.
He washed the cups. Threw their breakfast into the bin, scraping the thick muesli into the bin bag. It spattered. She’d be back.
There was a scratch of claws over the sink. Archie on his perch. Jack opened the cage and Archie flew around the kitchen, two circuits then back to his cage where he sat in the open door.
Jack packed a suitcase and returned to the kitchen, Archie tilting his head, weighing up what it meant.
Very brainy bird.
Every time they argued she’d storm off, slamming the doors, causing the furniture to skip. He pushed the table into the corner of the room and tied a piece of rope to the hook which held the light. An ugly thing. It had caught his eye when they’d moved in. Sturdy. Tied the rope tight. Got one of the battered chairs, the white paint chipped off. Balanced two of its legs on her bloody suitcase with all its bloody letters and clothes and knick-knacks.
He climbed up, checked the noose, checked the balance of the chair. That’d do it. One good drop and Jack would be off to meet his maker. Ask him what he’d been thinking. He looped it over his neck. Archie came and perched on his shoulder.
There was a scritching at the front door. That’d be her now. The door slammed.
The prompts were:
brainy
bird
tight
creator
arch
drop
