John Marsden Writing Topic #539
Describe something from extremely close-up**
Fairground Feelings
This isn’t how I envisioned our second date, but Jonathon had never been painted before and wanted to see me at work.
He sat in front of me being the dutiful subject, his chocolate brown eyes piercing my soul as I gently painted lines around them. He desperately tried not to sneeze as his nose scrunched when I patted it with the paint-caked sponge. We shared a smile as I finished by adding ‘whiskers’ above his lips.
“A masterpiece!” He proclaimed, admiring my work in the mirror, “see you for lunch at one?”
“Absolutely!”
There’d definitely be a third date.
**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
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