Writing Prompt - craft a story using the following:
–Sabrina had rhinestones around the scarlet rims of her glasses and painted portraits of chairs.
–Bob (“call me Robert”) collected musical instruments and made a few himself.
–They had three cats: Doctor Boson, Pico, and Dick Fosbury.
–At their wedding in 2005, he ran off with her maid of honor. Sabrina ran off to Bali.
What future can they possibly have?
Sabrina sat serenely
at the round table in the center of the small darkened room with her eyes
closed. Three cats perched in the other three chairs circling the table draped
in a scarlet floor-length cloth. Doctor Boson wore a small white beret, his
ears sticking through slits in the fabric. A red bolo looped several times
around Pica’s neck as she sat demurely waiting for a signal from her owner.
Dick Fosbury wore a floppy hat that drooped to the side and an expression of complete
boredom as he licked his front paw.
Around them, the
walls were adorned with painted portraits of chairs, Sabrina’s compulsive hobby
since Bob, a furniture builder by trade,
left her standing at the alter in 2005. A wooden flute, one of Bob’s favorite
from his collection of musical instruments was positioned in the center of the
table next to the pulsing globe.
The rhinestones
around the scarlet rims of Sabrina’s glasses glittered in the dim light cast
from the globe. Bracelets jangled at her wrists when she positioned her hands
around the orb, causing all three cats to look at her expectantly. As she
circled her hands around it, the globe became brighter, lighting up the room in
flashes of bright colors. When it finally settled into a blue hue, she peered
into its depths.
She saw Bob sitting in a bar with Becky, her ex-best
friend and her maid of honor. “Robert,” she said. “I don’t know why you’re so
afraid of her.”
“Because I know
she’s cast some sort of spell on me. I can’t hammer a nail without hitting my
thumb, I’ve forgotten how to read music, and, well, you know what’s happened in
the bedroom.”
“It’s only
temporary. Stop worrying,” Becky replied uneasily remembering the note she
received last month from Sabrina.
Sabrina patted
the flute and giggled with glee. The money she spent studying with Tara the
Great when she vacationed in Bali was paying off.
