Scene draft: Lusha tries to get answers, version 1

1 · Benjamin Leskey · Feb. 15, 2023, noon
This is the first draft of a scene I’ll be using much later. I wrote it for a creative writing class prompt, as it fit the prompt of having characters unable to say what they really mean. It’s a bit inspired by Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants since I read that just before writing this, and the prompt itself leads along those lines. Scene Lusha punched the number into the keypad and jerked the heavy slightly-rusted handset up to her ear. She shuffled around the tangled wire as the handset ...