The spoon dropped from my hand. “Is this a joke?” I ask.
“Joke would not be my word of choice… a whammy perhaps! Why, do you find it completely surprising?”
“Well, I kept trying to pacify myself that aloofness is an augury of boredom with the mundane. Was that illogical?”
“If you didn’t find the secret bank account and locked den ominous, then perhaps it was you who was not lucid through those years!”
I continued staring in incredulity at the photograph – My wife was leading the resistance.
Written to respond to Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #90 of a picture of a resistance, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt, which is to write a story that contains or make reference to a joke of some kind, and a bunch of word prompts from The Daily Spur (photograph, illogical), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (pacify, ominous), Your Daily Word Prompt (choice, augury), Ragtag Daily Prompt (lucid, spoon), and Word of the Day Challenge (surprising).
Leaking Ink 