“Where the heck did I put it?” Tommy yanked the silverware drawer open, as far as it would go, and bent down to look into its dark corners.
Slamming it shut, he patted each and every pocket of his jeans, pulling the front pockets inside out and spilling his car and house keys, a small handful of change, and a half-roll of wintergreen Lifesavers, his eyes fixed on his tearful wife.
Patting his back left pocket, he pulled out his wallet and spilled it all – credit cards, photos of the kids, old engagement photo of him and his wife, twenties and tens and four wrinkled dollar bills – on the kitchen counter.
“I guess that’s it, then,” Tommy growled at her, his tone dangerously soft. “I really have lost my integrity.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “LOST”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Story
Valley of the Trolls 
I’m not sure I’d want to witness what happened in sentence seven!
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Thank God it’s fiction, eh?
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Too right!
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Tense, Liz. A happy outcome is hard to imagine.
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Perhaps a case where parting is such sweet sorrow…
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Ho! What an final line. I was not expecting that. And with those few words all the sarcasm and anger reach back through the stgory and colour everything else. Excellent!
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You got it! At least two sides to every argument.
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He most certainly has lost it!
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What a sad way to live, and a sad way to end the story. Well done!
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Wonderfully built, Liz, but I am struggling to reconcile the engagement photo with the imminent violence.
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Love and hate are too often too tightly wrapped wrong. And sometimes irrevocably.
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lol
Like the others, most excellent good close/’punchline’ (at the end).
But, I also enjoyed how you managed engaging detail without losing any (narrative) momentum. Not, at least for me, the easiest thing to do. ‘specially with one of these here Six Sentence Story(s) here.
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So true. The semicolons and conjunctions beg so hard to be included!
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friction. good build UP
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Ouch! Not a happy resolution.
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That was an unexpected ending.
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And yet all roads lead to that place…😉
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Oh my. Not a happy couple. Good tension build up, Liz.
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Thanks!
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Beautifully set up, Liz, and a hard hit at the end, presumably at the end of a tough verbal battle. Well done.
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I imagine these two have been fighting like this for far too long.
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