neelwrites/fiction/shortstory/blacktea,withoutsugar/29/11/2016

FFfAW Challenge – Week of November 29, 2016

Black tea, without sugar

By Neel Anil Panicker

With a tea pot filled to the brim with delectable Earl Grey mint flavoured black tea, Melania Roberts settled down on her high backed comfy leather lined chair.

Extricating the single sheet of paper from the table drawer, she held its contents against the white strobes of early morning sun that lighted up the soft exquisite interiors of her ornate Gothic-era bedroom.

She knew orgasmic joy was a heartbeat away; her mind’s eye visualised beautifully arched, at times curvy, often ramrod straight lines flowing with words that would leap out and thrust into her heart’s cavities.

My dear Mel, it has been my great pleasure to have known and loved you. The fragrance of those beautiful times that we have shared shall always remain with me. (Oh! How wonderful were those midnight trysts in the hotel!).

However, of late, I have come to the acutely painful realisation that Roberts for a surname has a nice little ring to it.  I suggest you stick to it.

Goodbye and stay blessed.

Paul Huckman

word count: 173

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Written in response to photo prompt from

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