Monday, July 30, 2012

Drabble 32: Distracted.


So distracted by their accents, she thought. She wondered how she could write them. Could she add apostrophes here and there? It wasn't a lack of sound though. It was more a certain flatness in tone. It was just one of those unwrite-able things. “Ingrid.” Her boss would say, and she would ask, “Say it again?”

She was completely oblivious to the awkwardness.

“Excuse me? Did you not hear me?”

Ingrid would shake her head. “I'm sorry,” she'd say, “I must be losing my hearing.” A lie for sure.

But her boss definitely believed it.

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