Sarah Lingle Lives!

The Keep Writing Challenge assignment for May 2, 2020 was to write a 200-word (exactly) story on the topic "six to nine."

Sarah Lingle Lives

“You didn’t have time?  Everybody has the same 24 hours,” Sarah’s husband barked and turned back to his screen.

“Not true,” she fumed. Honey, Mom, or Mrs. Lingle toiled from 9A to 11P every day in her skin. But Sarah Lingle only lived 3 hours a day. She grabbed paper and began scribbling.

Daily Schedule

6:00-9:00A - Sarah Lingle (not somebody else’s appendage) lives!

9:00A - Honey does family breakfast duty; Mom gets the kids off to school.

10:00A-4:00P  - Mrs. Lingle teaches 12 year olds - mediates adolescent disputes, soothes hormonal angst, guides instruction, grades work, informs  parents, documents progress.

4:00P – Mrs. Lingle leaves school and Honey/Mom plans dinner.

5:00-8:00P – Mom supervises homework, ferries son to practice, monitors daughter’s screen time, cooks dinner. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lingle conducts impromptu parent/teacher conference via telephone explaining the fight she broke up at school today. Mom consoles teenage daughter over “mean girl” incident. Honey hears about hubby’s stressful workday.

8:00-10:00P – Mrs. Lingle makes tomorrow’s lesson plans and decides which parents need notification about their child’s insufficient progress in class.

10:00P – Mom gets family to bed. Honey provides wifely services.

Sarah threw the paper in her husband’s lap. “Sarah Lingle lives six to nine!”