By J Holmes
This silence is new; one I’ve not heard before. He’s communicating in a different language. Before today, I’ve managed to translate all my husband’s silences. There are so many.
Silence of ignoring.
Muzzled boredom.
Wordless sulking.
Fingered sign language.
And the classic; storming away and feigning a loss of hearing. The deaf threat.
But this morning, I hold up that woman’s slutty message on his phone and I can’t comprehend whether his silence is telling me nothing; or whether it’s telling me everything.
His dogged muteness is echoing around the room, smothering my piercing screams, shattering the silence that I need.
Well told. I want to get in the character’s head, to speak to her and to find out why she CARES that her bozzo husband is having and affair, why she doesn’t use it to ‘be rid of’.
I was trying to show the ridiculous levels of tolerance some people seem to have.
Leave the bastard NOW. And without a word….
Can be arranged…
Ouch!
🙂
A whispered ‘ouch’. ??
Well written… I think so many women could relate to this…and even men sometimes… well done… kudos …
Wrote this about ‘silence’ – after hearing someone’s clear, loud voice.
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