| re: 75 WORD WRITING CHALLENGE -- March 2012 -- Culhwch Wins!!
Face Value
“We’ll let you know.”
Another job interview failed.
*
“I need a new face. Intelligent, handsome, twenty years younger.”
The salesman opened the catalogue. Faces paraded round the room.
“That one.”
“Our premier model, sir. Somewhat expensive.”
“My credit’s good.” For two months. After that... He’d get by.
*
“Can you start tomorrow?”
*
He was in conference when it happened. One secretary fainted, another had hysterics; the CEO vomited.
His face, like his credit, unexpectedly ran out. |