"Well," he asked proudly, "what do you think of it?"
With little more than a glance, she shrugged her shoulders and answered, "It's sub-standard."
"What do you mean, 'sub-standard'? I've never had one complaint before about it being sub-standard!" he said with indignation.
"Then you've associated yourself with people who have very low standards. My standards are extremely high, and this," she said, opening the door to usher him out, "is not up to mine."
Linking up with Ivy at Uncharted for Six Sentence Stories with the prompt "standard."
(I am not disappointed)… in fact, I'll say, at risk of being accused of shopping the thesaurus, I marvel at how you manage to put so much into so few sentences.
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Ummmmmmm....well no one actually died...yer good at this brevity thing!
ReplyDeleteYes I agree how economical and precise this is; though of course the reader now wants more information!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, want to know more, but leaving us wondering makes a better story.
ReplyDeleteOh no she didn't!
ReplyDeleteMost definitely I'm wanting to know what dissatisfied her, and if her standards were indeed standard or unrealistically high.
ReplyDeleteLovely how you wrote so much in such little space, this is defiantly above standard level. Bastet
ReplyDeleteI love Ivy's comment, lol. You have a six sentence reputation (of the wonderful kind).
ReplyDeleteGood for this lady! You go girl!
Oh, snap! You are knocking these stories out of the park these days.
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