Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Desert Treasure

Diamonds were never her best friend. Too many complications attached, too much greed or bad karma or something floating around them. And you had to keep track of the damn things.

Which was why she was tramping around in sand dunes at dawn in her bare feet. Sandra still couldn’t believe that her asshole boyfriend, obviously high, had grabbed her purse and flung it out the window. Only he hadn’t. He’d pretended to, grinning like a ghoul. By the time he brought his hand back into the car with the purse, she had nearly rolled the Mercedes trying to stop it by stomping on the brakes. When he handed it to her she knew instantly that it was too light. Then she saw the rip in the bottom corner. “Get out get out get out!” She screamed. She started searching the floor of the car.

But they weren’t there. The jewels, worth more than her car, more than her mansion for god’s sake, had worn a hole in the purse and when he jerked it out the window they must have flown out onto the side of the road. Unless they had fallen out earlier. Sandra shuddered at the thought, then she wept.

But only a little. Then she backed up to ... where? Her best guess was maybe a couple hundred feet. Then she tore her flats off and ran to the gravel and sand that bordered the highway. Beyond, endless stretches of dunes and sage and stones. And pain.

5 comments:

  1. This sounds like the first page of a page turner. Why not keep going and see where it leads? I like the opening.

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  2. Nice challange, Sammi. Too bad I have so many starts and so few finishes ;-)

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  3. Kinda sounds like she got what she deserved :-)

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  4. I read this story today, and it reminded me of yours. I guess it was the diamonds and sand part. ;)
    http://www.shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/marriage-proposals-that-went-awry-2293047/

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  5. What a wild story. Talk about lost treasures. Thanks for the laugh Ablissa!

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