Showing posts with label RUSTY HOOK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RUSTY HOOK. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

H is for . . . RUSTY HOOK

Welcome to The Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014! This year, I’m offering up a story – each one 100 words or fewer - for each letter of the alphabet.

Some are heartfelt, poignant, sweet. Others are…not. 

I hope you enjoy them.

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RUSTY HOOK

The bar’s neon sign reels her in. As small and shriveled as she is, the bartender never throws her back, throws her out. If he did, she’d drown in her life’s muck, a rusty hook threaded through her gaping mouth, her last wish not for air but for whiskey.

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