Saturday night; I meet Mike at closing time.
She wears slippers, badge says Lucy, but we know her name is Kate. Her blouse is neat as always, grey hair pony-tailed.
Pouting she eyelashes us, notebook in hand:
“What y’a have today boys?”
Mike seems to hesitate, but after a just moment he sighs:
“What’s the special for today?”
“Hash and Sausage; cooked for two.”
“My place or your place?” I blurt.
We laugh and as every weekend for thirty years, we lock the vacant diner and leave together for our menage a trois. Tonight it’s Mike’s turn to sleep alone.
I wanted to do something less grisly this week and the picture was perfect for me to do something a bit nostalgic and sweet. I’m curios how this rather different way of telling a story of sorts worked.
Rochelle, waits our tables with a new picture every week and we try our best to write something new in hundred words.
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December 21, 2016
Björn Rudbergs writings 
I enjoyed “eyelash” as a verb
I love to use nouns as verbs…
This is so flipping adorable. I love it. 🙂
🙂 I tried to write something entirely different.
More people should.
And I think the guy “sleeping” in the next room is probably having a pretty good time listening.
Such lovely phrasing here.
Thank you.. I had fun trying something new.
Very different take indeed, but an enjoyable one. Lifelong friendships are to be treasured, no matter what form they take!
Indeed, there are so many type of relationships, why should we judge?
“Menage a trois” bad boy 🙂
Or bad girl?
🙂
I’d say Lucy/Kate is doing alright. She must be quite a dish.
I think they are all doing all right.. more stable than many marriages.
Nice way of getting it across Bjorn! It had sustained itself for 30 years?
Hank
I think it can be seen as a very long relationship
Dear Björn,
Isn’t it funny how our muse will take us in a direction we didn’t ‘plan.’ I like where yours took you. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I just started from the aging waitress… but I wanted to make it sweet in an unexpected way.
Friends with benefits! I’m talking about the hash and sausage, of course 😉
I think it has been hash and sausage for thirty years.
Hash and sausage! What’s not to like?
Maybe to have to take turns being the third wheel
A convenient arrangement, and amicable too, it seems. Nice one.
Maybe it works out, after all there is often a surplus of men in the countryside.
A love story with a subtle difference. Love it!
I have heard about unorthodox relationships, maybe it would work
All’s on the up and up with these three… sweet. Must be if it’s been going on for 30 years!!
It’s all about sharing…. and real friends do.
There’s sharing, then there’s SHARING! 😉
she eyelashes us… great line! Like the twist at the end.
Twist and shout
Ho-ly CRAP you caught me off-guard! I know “sharing is caring” but THIS isn’t exactly according to Hoyle. That ending really was a good one, though. Concentrated everything in a short sentence.
Ha.. yes I’m sure these relationships do exist…
I guess some women get bored with only one choice of sausage. Live and let live.
Happy Holidays,
Tracey
And maybe there are men who enjoys sharing 🙂
30 years – such a long time. must be really special. 🙂
Maybe they just enjoy each other all three…
This is sweet. Love it!
🙂 Thank you
Indeed a lot lighter. A fun read. Sharing indeed! Ha ha
For some reason it becomes funnier if two men share one woman than the other way around.
A strange interesting tale! Not sure why anyone has to sleep alone though…
Ha.. maybe there’s a limit to sharing.
Its all about the sausage. A saucy offering for this week. Different but nice.
I think the hash has something to say as well.
You succeeded in making this sweet in a very different way! Interesting take. Merry Christmas, Bjorn.
I really wanted to make it sweet avoiding any shame.
This is great! Your fresh phrasing, clipped voice and precise word choice really make this story stand out.
That’s what so great with FF… it’s really the perfect workshop to try new things out.
All kinds of people in this world. This could very well be three of them.
Enjoyable descriptors in this.
They are for sure not the normal type… strange that the two guys punching each other should be “normal”
Very off beat take on prompt. Simply loved the staccato manner of delivery. Speaking of which the three seem to be delivering somehting special to have lasted this long. Great stylised writing.
It makes me think there’s more to this, other layers. Nothing is that simple. Who washes the clothes and dishes and cleans the place? Will they all three go to the nursing home together in another twenty years? I know, I know it’s just a story but at my age, I think of those things. Good writing, Bjorn. 😀 — Suzanne