Spilled Coffee

100-word story [4]

Photo by Battlecreek Coffee Roasters on Unsplash

In the moment, he didn’t realize the spilled coffee would lead to a conversation and that the conversation would lead to a date, the date to marriage, then children, and, many years down the line, grandchildren.

It’s funny how life works.

An old man now, he sits across from his wife. It’s morning. Two cups of coffee sit before them on the rickety kitchen table.

“Hey,” he says to her.

She sets her book down and looks at him.

“I love you.”

She smiles. It’s the same one he remembers after all these years.

“I love you too,” she replies.

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Thank you for reading “Spilled Coffee” — I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, feel free to check out another 100-word story of mine, “Past Life”.

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Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first Fifties by the Fire to either share their fifty-word story or read them. I thought it was a lot of fun celebrating the microfiction form. If you missed it, check out the stories here.

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