Words flowed: eloquent, impressive.
Everything perfect, until
a fly disappeared into her interviewer’s
man bun.

Wouldn’t be easy,
but she’d battled giggles before,
and won.

Two more entered the bun party.
She bit her lip.

Oblivious, he droned on.
“We’re all abuzz…” he said.

She heard no further.
Game over.

Judi MacKenzie is a writer who still wonders if that woman in the story got the job.