Coffee House Writers

Top Menu

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Article Categories
    • Creativity
    • Culture
    • Design
    • Family
    • Fashion
    • Fiction
    • Food
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Home
    • Lifestyle
    • Memories
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Politics
    • Relationships
    • Sports
    • Style
    • Technology
    • Travel
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder
  • Meet Our Admin
    • Chief Editors
    • Editors
    • Poetry Editors
    • Advertising Team
    • Recruiting Team
  • Testimonials
  • Apply
  • Login

logo

Coffee House Writers

  • Home
  • Article Categories
    • Creativity
    • Culture
    • Design
    • Family
    • Fashion
    • Fiction
    • Food
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Home
    • Lifestyle
    • Memories
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Politics
    • Relationships
    • Sports
    • Style
    • Technology
    • Travel
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder
  • Meet Our Admin
    • Chief Editors
    • Editors
    • Poetry Editors
    • Advertising Team
    • Recruiting Team
  • Testimonials
  • Apply
  • Login
  • A Piece Of Deadwood

  • The Island Flamingo: Chapter 17

  • Perils of Gaming

  • Paradise Falls: Chapter 8

  • Autumn Whispers

  • The Red Maiden, Part Twenty

  • The Witching Hour

  • Getting Away with Murder

  • The Inhabitants

  • All the Books

  • The Vampire of Longbourn

  • Cause of Death

  • An Ode to Swedish Metal

  • Éowyn, Queen of Earth

  • Reading Values

  • Autumn, Halloween’s Escort

  • The Thing About Football

  • Score Success for Two

  • The Island Flamingo: Chapter 16

  • Droplets Of Joy

  • The Red Maiden, Part Nineteen

  • Paradise Falls: Chapter 7

  • The Calm After the Storm

  • From Across the Void

  • Take Me Out to Bananaland

  • Pangea’s Dilemma: The Looking-Glass

  • Womanly Advice

  • A Gap in Time – 5

  • Jane’s Chance Encounter

  • One Fine Spring Day

FamilyRelationshipsFictionEntertainmentFantasyCreativity
Home›Family›The Necklace: Part Five

The Necklace: Part Five

By Brooke_Smith93
June 21, 2021
625
0
Share:
laptop
Photo courtesy by Jan Vasek on pixbay.com

Check out Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four here.


Tilly, Nora’s cinnamon-colored bobtailed cat, abruptly woke Nora up by tipping her half-empty wineglass off the coffee table.

“Damn cat,” Nora fussed as she got up from her recliner.

She checked her cellphone before she cleaned up the mess. She groaned when she saw she had no new notifications.

“Why did she have to fucking inherit my damn stubbornness?!” she mumbled as she put her phone down. “All she needs to do is throw that damn necklace deep in the ocean!”


The waves rocked the yacht like one big cradle as a storm passed. Kierra’s stomach roiled as she tried to find her balance. She woke up in a puddle of spilled champagne. Her head throbbed furiously. She changed and pulled the covers over her head.

Annetta knocked. “Miss Bryne, good morning. I have brought you some breakfast and some aspirin.”

Kierra moaned as she peeked out of the covers.

“Just leave it at the door, please.”

“Yes ma’am,” Annetta responded. “Oh. The captain wanted me to inform you the storm has delayed our arrival to thirty minutes.”

“Okay, thanks.” Kierra exhaled heavily as she climbed back under the covers.

Buzzzz… Buzzzz…. Buzzzz

Her phone had been going off nonstop, but it had been out of sight.

Buzzzz… Buzzzz…. Buzzzz

The buzzing amplified her pounding headache.

Buzzzz… Buzzzz…. Buzzzz

She could follow the noise to find it and even use the necklace to stop the rocking, but she had no desire to deal with anything.

“I would rather deal with this nauseating boat ride than deal with anyone right now, anyway,” she thought as shame corroded her insides.

Kierra hated how her passion to be an amazing author and a decent person had slowly vanished since she came dependent on the power of the necklace. It had taken away the thrill and excitement of her new journey as a writer. She felt like a disappointment to everybody she loved. She closed her eyes and drifted away to when everything fell apart.


One month ago…

“I got this… I got this…” Kierra repeated internally as she fidgeted with the necklace. “I got my luck charm.”

“Mrs. Green is ready to see you now. Second door on the left,” said the receptionist.

“Thanks,” Kierra responded as she got up.

Her heart thumped harder and harder as she reached the door of Corine Green’s office and knocked.

“Please come in,” a silvery voice answered.

Kierra took a deep breath and walked in with a friendly smile. Corine Green stood up from her desk and walked around to shake Kierra’s hand.

“It’s so nice to finally meet you,” Corine smiled. “Your synopsis was quite intriguing.”

She was a lean, tall woman with a thick auburn colored curly pixie cut.

“Thanks. It’s such an honor to meet you.” Kierra blushed. “I still can’t believe I’m here.”

“Well, let’s make your dream more a reality.” Corine winked. “Please, take a seat.”

Kierra felt that she just rode the most terrifying emotional rollercoaster when she left Corine’s office.

Corine only gave her about a week and a half to revise her three hundred page manuscript. She covered every page with suggestions and comments.

Looks like I have to rewrite the whole damn thing, Kierra huffed. How in the hell am I going to finish everything and plan Marco’s thirtieth birthday celebration?!


Kierra promised herself she wouldn’t use the necklace to affect her love life or to boost her writing and typing skills. She should’ve just hid the necklace.

“Dammit. Why have I have spent so much time improving the character developments and subplots?!” Kierra fussed. “I only have a few days left.”

She bit her lip hard as she glanced over at the necklace holder on her dresser.

“I shouldn’t…. I shouldn’t…”

She turned away and focused. Her cellphone vibrated. It was an email notification.

“Shit,” she gasped. “I thought I confirmed the date with both the baker and the cater.”

“Fuck it. I can’t let them both down.” She exhaled as she got up and grabbed the necklace. “I can’t choose Corine over Marco and I can’t choose Marco over Corine.”

She put the necklace on and tapped it twice.

“Please bless me with the creativity, strength, and speed to finish my manuscript early.”

Before she knew it, she was whipping through her manuscript like she just got injected with gallons of caffeine.


Later that evening…

“You know I wouldn’t care if we had to postpone the party,” Marco said as he sneaked behind Kierra to kiss her neck. “You definitely don’t need additional stress.”

“Oh please, planning your birthday celebration has been more a stress reliever than anything,” she replied as she turned and gave him a peck on the lips. “Plus, I just finished!”

“Oh wow,” Marco responded. “Already? So you got past your runt?”

“Mhm,” she smiled as she embraced him. “I can put all my focus on the planning now!”

Marco raised an eyebrow as he noticed she was wearing the necklace.

“What?” she felt her blood pressure rising.

“Did you…” he asked as he gestured to the necklace.

“Ha. Seriously?” She faked a laugh. “I am only wearing it to remind myself I already have good luck.”

“I hope so…”

“Have I ever lied to you?” She smiled as she grabbed his face.


Featured image by Jan Vasek, courtesy of Pixabay

Tagsmagicshort storiesshort fictionthe luck of the Irishfictionthe neclace
Previous Article

Pennsylvania’s Thunderbird

Next Article

The Red Maiden, Part Twelve

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Brooke_Smith93

Brooke Settoon Smith is from Louisiana. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in History. She has a blog called Creative Works by Brooke Settoon Smith, which presents her most recent short stories and poems. She is recently an author on the mobile app called Texties. She is a contributing writer for The Mighty and Unwritten. She has also created a blog called Rolling Through Life by Brooke Smith, which presents her perspective on being born with Cerebral Palsy.

Related articles More from author

  • stage
    CreativityFictionFashionMusicEntertainmentCultureStyle

    Boogie. Man. Part II

    November 11, 2019
    By Adele Z.
  • From Cursive To Curses
    EntertainmentCultureCreativityFamilyRelationshipsFiction

    From Cursive To Curses- Part I

    August 10, 2020
    By Lindsey Gruden
  • RelationshipsFictionTravelCultureEntertainmentMysteryMediaCreativity

    The Island Flamingo: Chapter 6

    November 8, 2021
    By Adriana Philips
  • Lady Justice
    PoliticsCreativityFamilyRelationshipsFictionEntertainmentMystery

    The Deal

    January 10, 2022
    By Cadie B. Krivoniak
  • Alien, portal, Jill Yoder, horror, fantasy
    EntertainmentCreativityFictionFantasyHorror

    Beyond The Threshold

    September 20, 2021
    By Jill A Yoder
  • Dead tree, cloudy skies
    CreativityFictionHomeEnvironmentEntertainment

    The Vanishing – Part 2

    July 20, 2020
    By Donna Trovato

Leave a reply Cancel reply

You may be interested

  • Poetry

    Runaway Muse

  • crying
    CultureCreativityFictionEntertainment

    Orion’s Embrace Part 13

  • The Jazzy Chronicles
    CreativityFamilyRelationshipsFictionHomeEntertainment

    The Jazzy Chronicles: Bat Cat

Timeline

  • September 18, 2023

    A Piece Of Deadwood

  • September 18, 2023

    The Island Flamingo: Chapter 17

  • September 18, 2023

    Perils of Gaming

  • September 18, 2023

    Paradise Falls: Chapter 8

  • September 18, 2023

    Autumn Whispers

Latest Comments

  • Cast In Marble (is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine) – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
    on
    September 8, 2023
    […] Hello dear readers and followers, as you may know, I now write for “Coffee House ...

    Cast In Marble

  • In This Limbo, (at Coffee House Writers) – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
    on
    September 8, 2023
    […] https://coffeehousewriters.com/in-this-limbo/ […]

    In This Limbo

  • A Day At The Race, (is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine) – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
    on
    September 8, 2023
    […] Hello dear readers and followers, as you may know, I now write for “Coffee House ...

    A Day At The Races

  • A Welcoming Roar, is up at Coffee House Writers Magazine – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
    on
    September 6, 2023
    […] Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a ...

    A Welcoming Roar

  • Birds on Fences, is in This Weeks Coffee House Writers Magazine – Ivor.Plumber/Poet
    on
    September 6, 2023
    […] Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers. ...

    Birds on Fences

Find us on Facebook

About us

  • coffeehousewriters3@gmail.com

Follow us

© Copyright 2018-2023 Coffee House Writers. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s administrator and owner is strictly prohibited.