Chapter Six: Aurora takes the job as a server at The Starving Artist and seals her fate with Callie. Do you think she made the right decision? What would you have done?
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Callie
Chapter Seven
Friday after Friday, my co-workers kept pressuring me. "Tonight?" and "Come on get up there."
Clearly sharing my stories was an expectation. If I didn't join in would I lose my job? Fear that the answer was yes drove me out of the audience to the microphone. The lights were low; the bar was crowded. I read my words with emphasis the way I'd rehearsed.
Alone with Him
Applause accompanied me back to my table and there he waited--the first guy to hit on me since Rupert. I soaked up the attention and joined him in his cab.
He led me to his bedroom. The bed was made. There was no dirty laundry on the floor. Why do I always attract neat freaks?
"You don't know how talented you are, do you?" He kissed my neck. "Never doubt your author voice. Believe in the power of your words." He undid button after button on my sweater. "Always--."
Boeotia
A golden ray kisses
The cheek of an angel
An angel whispers to a mourning dove
"Awake my child and sing."
"Sorry, about the noise," I said.
"I don't hear any--."
I put my index finger on my lips, found my purse, and left the bedroom--so Callie and I could be alone.
A mourning dove's song
Awakens a fair maiden
A fair maiden stretches her arms
to the sun,
to inspiration,
"Lead me."
A day begins in Boeotia.
I tip-toed back into the bedroom, thinking that what's-his-name was asleep.
He sat up in bed. "You hear voices?"
"Voice. Only my muse--Callie's. When she speaks I write."
"You won't write about us, will you?" He looked worried.
"I write whatever my muse tells me to."
He crawled out of bed and handed me my discarded clothes. He gave me some lame excuse for why I had to leave and why we could no longer see each other. Maybe he said he was moving to the South Pole or becoming a priest or... Whatever.
I wondered what truth he was trying to hide from my pen as I dressed quickly and left.
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Read Chapter Eight--the final chapter
With a job that supports her writing and Callie's inspiration, prepare yourself for Aurora's happy ending.
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