Based on a dream I had this week. 😉
The floor under her trembled with the volume of the music, with the weight of dancing people. Colored lights speckled the air around her, but she stood still.
How could he? How could he?
His face gleamed with sweat and he smiled. As if he had all the answers.
I’m going to do this.
She slipped a manila envelope out of her purse and handed it to him. The music was too loud to say anything. Not there was anything left to say.
Maybe this will free me. Maybe I will feel like the world is full of possibilities again.
Story Treasury 
Sounds like divorce papers being served, LOL!
Could be! LOL
Oh nice, there in a few words is a complete story, maybe with a happy ending maybe not. Well done!
Thanks Helen! That is what I was going for.
That’s seemingly one important envelope!
Yep, very.
Dear Sonia,
Very nice story. I saw a single key. No note, no papers, nothing but the key in an envelope, as if she no longer wanted to even touch it. Cool.
Aloha,
Doug
Thanks Doug! Nice image.
Can you serve your own divorce papers? I think regardless of what’s in there, it’s her physically getting away from him that will change her life.
I don’t think you can. But, yeah, I think so too!
This is an intriguing start but I needed a bit more for this to be a complete story, for me.
Guess it needs more detail, huh? Thanks!
Makes me wonder if it is divorce papers or maybe something else. Either way, good story!
I am thinking maybe something else. Thanks Eric!
I saw it as divorce papers, too. Good luck to her!
Thanks Tony! Not really sure what, but maybe.
a dear john letter? a bundle of cash.. a photo of his lover she’s just kidnapped? Intriguing short Sonia
LOL I love the third possibility!
I can’t help but feel that she is serving him some kind of curse, I really don’t think he should open that envelope.
Ha ha, a cursed object, food for thought. Thanks Steve!
I’m guessing divorce papers. “Things are fixin’ to get ugly.”
But I also saw the hope in this, hope of a better life. I think she’s going to be too busy working on that better life to be vindictive.
You’re one of the best at putting a whole story into very few words.
Thanks so much Larry! Lots of see divorce papers, but I never really decided.
I like the way you’ve mixed the emotional tension of the protagonist needing the break with an environment that captures a sense of the hope for future combined with an overtone of the horror of what the relationship has become.
Oh oh oh that’s great. Barely realized I was doing all that.
I thought she was paying a hit man to… take care of the problem. [What does that say about me?]
LOL I don’t know, but I find the idea amusing.
My first thought was a restraining order. So, like Tim, not sure what they says about me! Nice work.
I like the idea, no worries. I never decided so it could be anything. Thanks.
I like how you left the point open to interpretation Sonia – that envelope could contain a number of things. Nice job!
Thanks so much Deanna! Yeah it could be almost anything.
Powerful stuff in just a few sentences – I was going with divorce papers too. Or maybe just an injunction – either way it should be interesting new chapter in their lives