Microfiction Day 185 – ‘Into the Woods’

“I told you not to go this way!”

“No, I asked if we should go left and you said right, so I went left!”

“I meant right as in you’re wrong, go right!”

“How on earth was I supposed to know that?”

“I thought it was obvious from my inflection.”

“Your inflection?!”

“Why can’t you admit that you’re wrong?”

“Why can’t you admit that I’m right?”

He stared out the windscreen.

She stared out the window.

Minutes and trees passed.

“I think we’re lost.”

“No shit Sherlock.”

“Google maps?”

“No signal.”

He stopped the car. The trees growled.

“Fuck.”


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