After your heartfelt speech I started a slow clap, but no one joined in. The saddest
Part was that you deserved every accolade, but my attempt fell short and silence
Reigned. Is there anything more damning than the sound of nothing reverberating around a hall?
Later, at the soirée we held hands and danced languidly to the strains of a small jazz combo.
Smoke Gets in your Eyes took little of the sting away. You still felt the absence of applause.
You know you’re busting genres here….and I’ve noticed it a time or two previously… I’ll perverse your tag of free verse and suggest you’er subject to flash fiction when you have a mind to…so I’ll risk your tendency to pipe up with a, “What..who me?” And state flat out, that this is a fine example of “Hint Fiction.”
Regards,
I.M. Peculiar
Picayune, Idaho
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I like that. Hint Fiction. Am I the founder and you the namer?
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