Sheila MacAvoy — The Monarch Review

Inn Of The Flying Plates – Sheila MacAvoy

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 13:29 — 3 Comments

She sat in the front seat of the Volvo and opened the L.A. Times as he inched down the driveway and avoided the branches of the pittosporum that needed pruning. She looked up once to admire the sleek lawn and the planting of daffodils that made their house look like an English cottage. Then she heard his intake of breath, as if he were about to comment on those offending shrubs, but thought better of it because they were officially not speaking. It had started last week. An argument over the replacement of the broken television in the family room. […]