One hundred little words

WORDS
                    RED                  PURGATORY
CHAOS                     EDGAR

I'm really no good with prompts, but some efforts are worse than others. Agent Janet Reid hosted one of her contests recently. She posts a good blog, if you're interested in literary agents. The prompt words from the titles of Edgar nominees for best first novel in 2011:  Bent Road by Lori Roy (I loved this one), Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Reid's client), All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen, Last to Fold by David Duffy, and Red on Red by Edward Conlon. Followers of the Reid blog were invited to submit stories of 100 words using red, bent, chasm, chaos, and fold. (As a matter of interest--to me!--I didn't win or place.) The winner blogged about the experience HERE on January 23, and it's a great post.
The following is my effort:

A trace of red in the corner of your lip. The shade I wore every performance for the last seven years. I felt rage fold into a singularity, a chasm of clarity where I saw your ambition like a pool on whose surface our friendship stirred no chaos. I bent toward you and the light, to reflect you in my eye—the mirror in which you stood and lied:  "I won't go to the theater. I won't try out for your part." The role I'm now too old, and you the right age, to play.

See Reid's Thursday, January 26, 2012--hilarious picture. I'm a sucker for cats and slightly sick humor. (Actually very sick humor, but this one is only slightly--um--Bent.)