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Look – a carriage ride round the park! Can we darling?
You’ve spent enough today. That present for your mother, and then lunch…
But it’s our honeymoon. New York, once in a lifetime! Please?
Her voice falters as he turns away scowling. She hurries after, head down, lesson learned.
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Written for Kat’s Twittering Tales Challenge over at her blog, Like Mercury Colliding. This one took me a while to come up with some inspiration. Never having been to New York, I didn’t know what to write at first… but human stories are the same wherever I guess.
Oh, how sad. A heartbreaker, this one.
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Thanks Kat!
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If he’s already so strict during their honeymoon, he’ll only get worse with time. Nice take on the prompt!
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Glad you liked it!
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Think your story says a lot in such a few words. – good one.
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Thank you!
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