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Prompt: 026. wristwatch
1. She stared at the wristwatch with a sense of dread. Her ears filled with a buzzing sound as they spoke.
A. She stared at the wristwatch with a sense of dread. Her ears filled with a buzzing sound as they spoke. Trying to say that he was dead. That he was never coming back to her. That she would never get to say goodbye to him.
When the officer tried to hand it to her, she took a step back. She crossed her arms in front of her and shook her head back and forth. As though not accepting that the watch was his would somehow make everything all right again. He would come walking through the door, smile at her, and tell her that there’d been a big misunderstanding. He was fine.
2. “Somebody stole my grandfather’s watch. It was in my jewelry box and it’s gone.”
A. “Somebody stole my grandfather’s watch. It was in my jewelry box and it’s gone.” She looked around the room, trying to catch a glimpse of guilt on any of her three roommates’ faces. But she didn’t see anything but dim interest.
She could tell that they were already disregarding what she had to say. They didn’t even have enough respect for her to give her a minute of undivided attention. Her grandfather’s watch, an heirloom from her family, was missing and not a single one of them could even pretend to care.
It made her angry.
3. He checked his wristwatch one more time. There were only ten minutes left.
A. He checked his wristwatch one more time. There were only ten minutes left. It made him nervous. Things could go wrong so easily.
He stared through the windshield at the building across the street. He wasn’t sure what his contact looked like and he was worried that he was going to miss her.
Until he saw her.
And realized that anyone that missed her had to be blind.
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