Obsession (Love Nudge)

~ Sonya
(c) Ady

You enter your magic portal (aka the garage) and turn from Mum – limping defeated from the breakfast battlefield – into six-figure marketing director. Today is Tuesday, the day he may be in town, so you take a detour to the park. He’s there; your heart races.

‘We should find another bench; one that draws less attention to itself and those sitting on it.’

‘I like this bench.’

‘What if someone sees us?’

‘Let them see us. I don’t care.’

Says he whose life is safe elsewhere.

You know he’s obsessed.
You ought to call it off but
You feel so alive.

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Okay, bit against the rules of FFfAW this week: I’ve combined it with Lynn’s second love nudge, so it is a continuation of yesterday’s haibun. The photo prompt just went too well with the idea I had in mind. I think this stands on its own, though – I hope nobody’ll mind.

41 thoughts on “Obsession (Love Nudge)”

  3. It was only ever going to end badly from the outset – only question is how badly? Love these haibun’s – such an artform to combine the prose and the haiku. Lovely, Sonya

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    1. Thanks, Lynn. Something about your nudges just made my brain go, ‘it’s time we tried this’. Dunno yet how badly, tbh, I’m making it up as I go 😀

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  5. Liked this a lot. He has nothing to lose being in public. His family is elsewhere. But he makes the main character feel alive. How dangerous. But I see why she hangs on.

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  6. Nice combination, I went to read the “first part” and they complete each other so well. Funny how something that can be so bad can feel so good! I hope she doesn’t get in trouble for following her heart/guts 🙂

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  8. Somehow I get the feeling that things are not going to work out all that well for them! Great story and I love the haibun form. I’ve been thinking of trying it out myself. 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Amy! I think it helps that the pieces are so short. I have certainly written my fair share of self-help sounding stories… But I do love second person.

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        1. Oh, yes, it is. Flash is the ideal playground for all the stuff I’d never try in longer prose. Hope I’ll read one of your second person stories soon 🙂

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