By Wendy Markel
Arrogant and careless. The tribunal’s words condemned him to back-street medicine: bullet removal and face-altering for villains or the vain.
This latest patient was unintelligent, strident, argumentative. Were these the characteristics she wanted to quell?
Obdurate and insistent, she needed this to ease her mind. She named her procedure and her price but ignored his words.
“It will change you forever,” he’d said, relishing the thought of proper surgery again.
She lay quiet, thrilled at the thought of her new appearance. She hated her flaccid earlobes.
He set the drill running.
A ‘lobe-otomy’ she had demanded, a lobotomy she shall have.
Well written with a clever ending. Kudos.
Thank you, for your kind comment
Tomato—tomahto! It’s all in the pronunciation. Great story.
Brilliant! Well done
Thanks you’re very kind
Great story! Very clever.
Ah, thank you, that’s kind.
Nicely lobbed…
Ha! Oops!
?? You nailed that twist at the end. Excellent work!
Be careful what you wish for… clever story.
unexpected ending, really good!
Clever twist at the end.
As the previous Liz commented, Oops!
Beaut little story.
Wow! Very clever! Loved it!