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caroline wright : “argument number 243,513”
No, no way, you’re not having the dog, no you can’t, it’s mine.
The dog’s not yours, it’s mine.
You can have the snake or the rat.
I don’t want the snake or the rat, they’re yours.
You’re not having the dog, anything else, not the dog.
The dog’s bloody well mine and you know it.
Stop swearing.
I’ll swear if I want, the dog’s mine.
We can share then.
What, I take from the mid-rift up, don’t be bloody daft.
Stop swearing.
Predictable, every time we argue, you tell me to stop swearing.
Yes, that’s because you swear, predictably.
I’m not sharing the dog, it’s mine.
We can take turns then: a joint ownership kind of thing.
I’m not sharing and that’s that.
Stop swearing.
I didn’t swear.
Yes you did.
The dog’s mine.
Okay, let’s compromise, you have the dog.
Fine.
Not its not, it’s not a compromise.
Stop playing games.
I’m not.
Yes you are. Where’s the bloody waiter anyway.
Christ, I could murder fish and chips.
Stop swearing.
Caroline Wright lives in West Lothian & works as a Social Worker in Edinburgh. She is married with five children all under the age of 14 years & writes short stories in what spare time she can find. Ideas for her stories, like her children, usually arrive unexpectedly in the middle of the night keeping her awake until delivery is complete. ‘Argument243,513’ is her first published short.
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