Monday, September 16, 2013

Teary Eyed


Her lower lip quivered as tears welled up in her startled eyes.  She drew in a sharp breath and held it in an effort to keep them from cascading down her cheeks, blinking her eyes as she did.  The pain radiating up her leg from her stubbed toe overwhelmed her and she let out her breath in an explosion of unladylike words.

Around the office heads popped up, like prairie dogs in the plains of South Dakota popping out of their burrows, to see what was going on.

“Sorry, I stubbed my toe.”  She said, her face red with embarrassment.     

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