A Let Down
He tried but failed.
Published in
Jan 19, 2024
Her warm smile disappeared as soon as she heard him say, “I’m sorry.” Her face, now contorted with anger and disappointment, turned into a grimace.
Kevin knew he fucked up. He opened his hand and held it up for her to see the fragments of a broken cell phone screen inside a piece of the cotton shirt her husband wore to work that morning.
“This is all I could find,” he said. “He’s not where I left him. I looked everywhere.”
“Go look again,” she said. Then snatching the items from his hands, she slammed the front door behind her.
This is in response to Grim Flandango’s A Drabble a Day 3 challenge (word: fragment). Thanks Grim!
