Today’s NaBloPoMo Prompt: Free Write
John is having a pretty good day. Actually John is having a truly awful but the last few minutes have been pretty good. He’s peeling a hard boiled egg and it is coming off perfectly.
Gloria had made hard boiled eggs a few days before and John thought they were all gone. But then he was rummaging in the refrigerator and found one hidden behind a half-eaten cup of yogurt, he didn’t remember ever eating the yogurt but Gloria HATED yogurt so it must have been him.
And rummaging was the right word for it. As John remember, once, before they were married, Gloria had said, “I like you. You’re the kind of guy who would use the word ‘rummage.” And it was true. He never had, in fact, used the word, but only because it had never come up. To think of that, thirty odd years of life, and John had never had occasion to use the word rummage.
Until now. Except that he hadn’t been speaking out loud. The house was deathly silent. John didn’t want to wake Gloria, who was upstairs in bed. Every window in the house had black-out curtains. And even though she was upstairs, John still winced when the light from the refrigerator pierced the gloom.
Gloria had never said it, but if she thought of it, she would have agreed, that John was the kind of guy who would have said the words “pierce the gloom.” Although, again, he never had., But he would if it was something that needed to be said.
Took the egg out and closed it and sort of waited for his eyes to readjust to the darkness,Navigated by touch and the bits of gray light that made it round the curtains. Took that egg to the counter and gently softly quietly started to crack it. And the peel just came off.
Not all at once, of course. John’s awful day was a pretty good one but not THAT good. The peel came off the egg in a slow winding trail of connected eggs parts. Until the white thing was naked. He dropped the egg shells (shell!) in the garbage disposal (”never put eggs shells in the garbage disposal john!” and rinsed the egg off under the water faucet.
Today’s NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt: Surreal