Madge Makes Up Her Mind - 4

[Pamila Payne]

Madge turned to leave room number 12, working herself up into a huff, overriding her unease with irritation at the cleaning girl's disappearance and locking on to the idea that she had run off. Before she made it to the door she heard a sound coming from the other side of the wall, a sound like a cat meowing far away and it stopped her cold. Room number 12 was the last room in the row on the west side of the motel and on the other side of the wall, there was a clearing that led into a deep grove of trees. She moved nearer to the wall listening to the muffled sound as it faded in and out like the stations on the radio when the strange voices cut into the usual shows. She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear listening closer and caught two words in spanish that she understood, "perdido," and, "ayuda." She stepped back from the wall and hesitated only a moment before she ran out the door and around the corner into the clearing, hoping she could get to the girl before she wandered too deeply into the grove of trees.

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Thanks for reading

[Absolutely*Kate]

Merde! Such detail in sounds and sensations in a story holding a reader realizing this was but the taste treat of only six little sentences. Can't wait to be turning page after page in the full Bella Vista Motel soon-to-be-published novel., Ms Pamila.

Sure expecting a grand inscription in my copy.
Love Madge ... love the tone in this one ... sure trust the intellect and curiousity of good 6'rs to keep on the mysterious trail. ~ Absolutely*Kate

[Stephen Buss]

I love how you create sympathy for characters in such a short space! I'm still trying to work out how you do it!