Bad Wrong Things

by C.P. Harris

Joey had got to call home after making it through the Marine crucible, and I wasn’t there. Getting the news later from Clint had sent me crashing windless to the kitchen nook chair. It’d hit me how much I missed him when learning I’d lost the chance to hear his voice.

Why didn’t we get to see this scene? Why couldn’t it happen and you let the audience learn and see how he feels instead of informing us how to interpret ANOTHER off-page situation?