Excerpt from “The Quiet Office” No. 6
Sharon was grateful to Janine for driving her to Betsy’s for a Transformation Game to take her mind off the demise of the postman. Betsy was experienced in the Transformation Game, having played it at Findhorn. Each of the four was instructed to bring lunch to share, which turned out to be three quinoa salads and an onion tart. Verity arrived late due to having had four changes of outfit before she came out because of a chance remark by Sharon about colour healing. Halfway through the game Verity stopped to check: “Is this all going into ‘The Quiet Office’?” Sharon meditated for a bit and replied: “Well I think the bit about Verity declaring she would go on the Lighterlife sachet diet should go in”. Verity put on her best Brian accent to say: “You’ll never do it Verity.” Someone asked if Brian had a beard. Sharon said: “You have to wait till the end to find that out”. Verity now doubled as the narrator, with gravitas: “…Brian shaved his beard.” “So – he has a beard?” mused Sharon, grateful for the revelation.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Dear Lana
Do you think Brian would have gone if he’d been invited to Betsy’s place…especially if he knew about there being an onion tart present? Perhaps Verity should have told him. I am amazed that Janine called it a tart and not a quiche – but then i suppose The Quiet Office IS set in Rural England. Bit riske tho for Sharon, poor thing…
Perhaps Verity didn’t tell Brian because she wanted go wild and consume with passion the entire tart herself…. I wonder then, if that’s the case, why on earth did she dream up the idea of the Lighterlife diet!? Perhaps Sharon can make her see sense….
Good Heavens, the plot’s every bit as good as the Archers!
Your devotee
Flick
April 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Janine is upset with herself that she didn’t call the tart a quiche if it put Brian off. She may have met him in a past life, but has not done so in this lifetime, and is getting desperate. Now she is getting really worried about all this dieting business. Also is there a feeling of deja vue or Alice in Wonderland as life is becoming a story.Thank goodness there will soon be a Full Moon to sort it all out, the men from the boys perhaps.