Microfiction: Rear View Mirror by Val Muller

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to write a story of exactly 100 words, inlcuding these 5 words: harvest, glow, iron, paint, clock.

Rear View Mirror

by Val Muller

At 35, the good guys were taken, she thought, slugging through traffic, clock sluggish.

How many hours could a commute harvest?

She saw him in the car behind her, looking mighty fine in the sun’s glow.

Graying goatee, ringless hand tapping the steering wheel, wicked tattoo painted on his arms, yet driving a Camry. Responsible.

With iron resolve, she wrote with permanent marker, “I like your tattoo,” then held the notebook out the window. He smiled.

She smiled back for two miles, then exited. Neither were anywhere near the city, but in the glow of the blinding sun, he followed.

The Spot Writers:

Val Muller: http://www.valmuller.com/blog/

Catherine A. MacKenzie: https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/

Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com

Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.ca/