Prompt: Embarrassing
The first Thursday of every month they meet at a hotel, a different hotel every time, according to the order they appear in the old 2014 telephone directory. They alternate procuring reservations and paying in cash for one night’s accommodation, and register under names selected in alphabetical order from the book Surnames Through the Ages, in the chapter, ”Most Common”.
They don’t speak to one another, except in private sign language. When they arrive, they turn on the television, fairly loud, and then play a recording on a device that she brings in her bag. The recording is mostly silent, with the occasional cough, or snore, or flush of a toilet.
They make love soundlessly.
Until one Thursday when they check in under the name “Sullivan” at the Post and Pigeon Boutique Hotel near the farmers’ market.
So intense is their passion that they both cry out at once. In horror they dress quickly, and leave separately, never to meet again.
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