Here is another entry of mine for the Fifty-word short story challenge, provided by @jayna. Read the rules and recommendations here. This time she also gives some good tips how to encounter and write such a short story. Have fun, storytellers!
FATAL AFFAIR
A chocolate fountain pours out its sticky, sweet melts. Bride and groom.
"Kisses! Kisses!" shouts the cheering crowd.
The already married arrived by car. A woman quietly eyes her husband. Fifteen years. On the trip a guilty aching stomach. Her affair. Oh my, this fear ... .
"Shall we dance?"
"Yes," she nods.
Well, not much of a back story is needed, I guess. When "chocolate" was offered as the prompt, the first thing entered my mind was a vision of a chocolate fountain. Immediately this was accompanied by a wedding celebration. I imagined the newlyweds performing their happy dance on a shiny parquet. The bride and groom as the biggest contrast to a couple already married and experienced in troubles. The sadness of a woman who is afraid to tell her husband of her affair. The probable ending of their marriage.
Though this may serve a sad impression I'd like to add that every ending offers a new beginning. Affairs are much common these days and not talking to each other is in my eyes what makes it fatal. I am convinced, anyhow, that all who live in a relationship do already sense when something hides in the bushes. To give into ones intuition for moments of clearing could happen much earlier it usually does. It's not so much the fact that betrayal happens but the lost moments of having worked on the connection itself. Betrayal, is not, as it is often looked at, an act of one but indeed an act of two.
I do not see a broken marriage as a total failure but a chance to learn from its experiences.
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