Winner
TAG: story fictionI went upstairs to give the mail to old man. It was too hard for him to come 5 floors down. He was living just above my flat anyway.
He opened the door, let me in. He used to be a succesful publisher and had an avantgarde life style. He knew many famous writers, artists, poets. Never get married, was a real womanizer I guess.
Now 82 years old, half deaf, half blind lives on his own. I never saw any visitor come along except the nurse and the cleaning lady once a week..
"Would you like some tea?" he asked me while he raised his shaking hands to take the post. It looked like he had a kind of eczema.
"No, thanks" I said, "I promised to bring my kids to the park"
"Are you married?" he asked.
"Yes, for 10 years... I have two kids, a boy and a girl"
He looked at me with his half blind eyes:
"You are the winner" he said, "you are the winner".
Based on a -semi- true story
5 Noises:
Cool story...continue...
and kinda reminiscent of something from "Requiem For A Dream"
Really, was it the "winner" part?.. :)
Ah... that could be fodder for many more posts, no? Left me wanting to know more...about his life...
Hmm. Maybe I should write more about his life. Thanks for the idea Trinity. :)
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