This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – EXPRESS
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Sid Shovel, Private Eye
When she undulates into my office my eyes decide to pop out, just to get nearer to her.
This dame has a body that can stop an express train going down a mountain so, when she sits and crosses her long, slender, nylon-clad legs, I imagine everything from our first date to the grandchildren visiting, with a few pretty memorable highlights included, by the time she finishes.
She puts a cheque on my desk, the number of zeroes reminding me of my favourite football team’s recent goal-scoring record.
Then she starts to talk, explaining her problem in minute detail and at great length.
When she eventually stops, she studies me for a few moments before asking what I think.
I blink at her a few times, shake my head rapidly from side to side, and tell her ‘I’m sorry, I was a bit distracted, I really wasn’t listening.’
Sound Bite Fiction 
That first sentence was a tell-all, but it kept getting better and better, right to the final punchline.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Liz.
And I agree, it wasn’t subtle!
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Dude!*
Too many lines echoing from the masters, i.e. Chandler, Hammett…Spillain
Fun Six
* compliment on a six pack of pulp fiction, my favorite genre
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Laughing.
I think the title is a bit of a clue!
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I came pretty close to that when I was an automotive sales virtuoso – I sold her a motor and got a date!
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Yeah, yeah, whatever.
You couldn’t spell ‘virtuoso’!
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I imagine that happens to her a lot! Fun Six 🙂
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Thanks, Chris.
It must be nice to have that effect!
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Lol. I’m sure he won’t mind having her begin all over again 🙂
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He’ll happily sit there forever, Denise!
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oops!
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Very profound, m’lady
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Sam Spade with hormone-induced Alzheimers. Loved it,
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We all get these moments, Doug, at least he had a reason
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perfect
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Very kind, UP!
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Nice description of the fantasy of her in those first two sentences completely explaining the distraction in the last sentence.
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Cheers, Frank
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I’m laughing here.
I can just picture this, you capture the tone and the time.
And I have a vivid picture of him blinking as he realises she’s stopped talking…
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At least he had an excuse, some of us just drift aw…
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Funny 🙂
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Happy to amuse, Trish
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