I was editing this with Sonia by Mirar blasting in my ears... contrary to popular belief about music as such, it calms my brain and makes me able to think on a few continuous threads instead of a hundred... if it makes sense... I mean.. it helps me structure my naturally chaotic mind...
Also, as always, Denise, as the host for the six sentence story hops, provided us with the weekly prompt word—SLIP—and all the other participants' stories can be accessed through the link-up.
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #10
"Five more minutes!" the Nervous Poet yelled at her phone as if it were her mother waking her up for school again—well, you wouldn't be surprised, considering that her creativity had peaked with wine and the obnoxiously loud music drowning out the downstairs neighbours' get-together.
The situation was even more dire—considering her annual leave was ending—while trying to fall asleep, her mind ran in circles around the day to come: don't forget to tie up your hair, remove all of your piercings, say hello to everyone, use the cheap whiskey for tiramisu, less wine in the bolognese, smaller slices of bread, less salmon on the salad, and so on...
Also, we are about to witness the overwhelming urge for an author to put their characters through what one would call... the best day ever, well... as she got off the bus—a pigeon—and get this—shat on her head... but there was no time to tally the misfortunes; her shift would begin in fifteen minutes, so she hurried inside, only to be stopped by her manager.
"Aurelia, could you please accompany me to my office?" he said while beckoning her to follow, and once they had closed the door behind them he continued: "As you know, we are not doing very well lately, I'm..."
"Are you giving me the pink slip... but... I have been working here for five years... I... I left everything behind to relocate here... why... did I... do something wrong?" her voice cracking further with every question as the manager slid the paper across the desk and muttered, "I'm sorry," unable to look her in the eyes as he left.
Aurelia walked out of the building in the direction of the Six Sentence Café, thinking: OK, fine, shit happens, but at least now, perhaps I can fully focus on getting my book ready; the Café itself was quite lively as she walked toward the bar and ordered "something with tequila, vodka and absinthe," noticing the red-haired figure approaching her, and shortly after, deciding to join her.
There's more of my work:
All of the six-sentence stories.
The Nervous Poet Entries for the SSC&B.
There is also a page for all of the poetry.
More personal entries can be found at the Blog.
The IT studies blog in Estonian for a course at the university.
the Band "Chaos in Spring" is on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming services.
Pidgeons and pink slips, oh my! Aurelia is not having a good day. At all. I love that she can recognize the positive that comes from the negative. As to “something with tequila, vodka and absinthe,” the Bartender will serve Aurelia anything she wants. One Emerald Balrog coming up!
Thank you! Am glad that she can too.
I think this is going to be a classic. What fun already, but drinking tequila, vodka and absinthe – that’s a heady mixture (as Denise aka the Bartender also said).
We do have cocktails like that here…
They call it the killer… 😂
But I think she drank it and moved on to water like a normal person.
In our version of *the killer* they also add sparkling wine btw. I have seen grown men fall like flies from my time working in the café that had a bar too.
Excellent Six with it’s ‘element of action’* of Aurelia’s adding to the SSC&B’s oasis of …er won’t say serenity, let’s go with safe harbor
“Safe harbour” is a great way to put it. Thank you Clark! And the café seems to be rather busy this week…
Busy, but never too busy for you, or anyone who has had a bad day.
Thank you! ❤️
May Aurelia find a better job soon.
And write the book too. Hopefully she will get a better job too.
Another redhead? Who can that be? Fun read.
I wonder 🤔 . Thank you.
As they say, there’s a book in everyone!
One needs to write it though… 😂
Looks like that Aurelia is having a bad day. Hope she finds a better job soon.
Hopefully so. Thank you for the ccomment!
And as Aurelia enjoyed her drink with a “fuck it” resolve, Nick played this from the SSC&B loudspeakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzS1AGkC-oY
Thanks. I did think you would like the band but not that you already knew them! 😂 They are not as known as they deserve to be…
I think that Aurelia is grooving at the café at this point…
😎
It’s a rock-bottom day for Aurelia, which means things can only get better. Good company and a stiff drink in the SSC&B is a great way to launch. 💚
Thank you lots for the comment and hopefully she will have a better day this week… though I wouldn’t know… she hasn’t told me everything yet… though I tried to get the secrets out of her… lol