Bouncing into a parallel universe is not a viable excuse for tardiness.
Yet as Melanie made a mad dash toward the closing elevator door, no more feasible excuses were making themselves available to her.
She certainly could not offer the real reason behind her turning up half an hour late, as few would believe her if she told them that she, Miss Texas 2005, had spent last night in a swanky Chinese Restaurant wine-ing, dining, and seducing Damien, the overweight, hygienically challenged, male chauvinist asshole from the Marketing Department.
Fewer still would believe that she had spent the last hour and a half struggling to drag Damien’s drug addled body into his bathtub where he was currently doing the electric slide with a blow dryer.
Oh well, it didn’t much matter what they believed- as now that the only other applicant for the VP of Marketing position was out of the way, she could finally realize her true destiny.
As the elevator whirred up the 27 floors toward the Marketing Department, Melanie slipped the tiny strip of paper from the fortune cookie she picked up last night while at dinner with Damien: it read ‘You have an ambitious nature and will make a name for yourself.’
This is a Six Sentence Story written for Girlie on the Edge’s Blog Six Sentence Story Challenge. The cue word this week is Destiny.
Thru Violet's Lentz 
The nod of approval from the cosmos. I love it!
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You’re not gonna expect me to curtsey are you? Thank you!
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🙂
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These things have a tendency to catch up with you, fate is fickle.
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Love the alliteration. Fates Fickle Fortune Cookie!
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But will that name be good? Or notoriously bad? 🙂
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Well she’s off to a roaring start isn’t she?
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Indeed. 🙂
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Coincidences we like to label destiny ..
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A destiny many are willing to accept. Thank you for stopping in
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I wonder if there is a difference in fate and destiny. KWIM? Fate sounds much darker, destiny hopeful. Good six. It’s a deep one.
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I agree with your interpretation and wish her destiny… Thanks UP!
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lol
nicely visual. (hey, totally liked the first line, which to me, read as a whole extra, bonus element to the story.)
fun
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Why thank you! I was going for the ‘no clue’ opener and it looks like I achieved it!
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“Bouncing into a parallel universe is not a viable excuse for tardiness.”
Damn. It’s not? lol
Geez, I was all set for a light and airy, totally escapist SSS and whaa-at?! How utterly dark and ominous!
4th sentence – excellent 🙂
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OOO yes, I like that one myself!! Thanks again for the venue!
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You’re very welcome!
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This girl means business. Great six.
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Thank you Deborah, and I agree she is focused isn’t she?
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Yikes. Too bad for Damien; he was dying to get that position.
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Hehehe…… 👿
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