By Lotusneko
Sue and Terry lived at odds in what everyone affectionately called ‘The Pink House.’ The front yard was packed full of random pink items including a non-working toilet. One evening, Terry snapped. “Goddamn you and your pink. I can’t take it anymore. Either the pink has to go, or I go!”
The next day, there was a new pink sculpture in the front yard of a man running. A television reporter interviewed Sue. “I was never allowed anything pink as a girl. Everything was navy blue or brown.”
“How do you afford your hobby?”
“I just invented a new paralytic drug.”
Your first sentence sets the scene, introduces the protagonists and the conflict in a mere fourteen words. First class writing.
Sounds like you killed two birds with one stone to me.
Loved this~
Clever!