‘Where does a child hide …?’

Today’s writing prompt and my response.

Use the prompt however you like, one at a time, or pen a short story over as many as you like.
‘Where does a child hide in a small town like this?’

‘You shouldn’t have shouted at him.’

I paused briefly in my hurried walk along the footpath to stare at my husband striding beside me. I was furious. And uneasy. It wasn’t normal for Andrew to shout, or even to be angry.

‘He wouldn’t listen to me.’ He was truculent, worse than the four-year-old could be....