Don’t Pick Up by Duane Allicock

Prompt: Conversation with my spouse | Word count: 1200 | Genre: Crime
“Wom…” Sean held his breath in frustration, “Woman is what you want? You had police arrest me last Friday. Is Tuesday night, I barely out two days! Is what, you feel things suddenly change?”
He closed his eyes and death gripped the Samsung S3, expecting at any moment that the screen would crack. Sean gnawed on the cord of his headset as the haranguing on the other end of the line continued.
“So I disgusting?” he spat, “I disgusting?! Is not you who send bailiff to drop off maintenance letter for me at work? My work place? Is embarrassment thing you like?”

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