What is in that phone you have your eyes and mind stuck at?

A short prose piece in one sentence

What is in that phone you have your eyes and mind stuck at, Lisa was curious and getting worried as she asked Ray whom she knew for more than 10 years, now at dinner table in the fancy diner for which she had made the dinner reservation one month in advance for their 2nd anniversary as what could be so important that he can’t even glance at her or have a decent conversation with her without leaving his phone for even one single minute- can’t help wondering what could it be that he can’t look around what or where they have come to- the diner serving best of food and wine in the city which was in his prolonged bucket list as he isn’t usually like this and enjoys eating at fine dining restaurants- whose call or text or news he could be waiting for- What could it be and she was afraid to ask.

Thank you Shereen Bingham for inviting me to take on this fun, one-sentence writing challenge. I really enjoyed it as i tried to come up with one long sentence paragraph.

Amanda asks writers to compose a single-sentence poem or story, and Carolyn suggests making the sentence comprise 200 words. For details on these challenges, see Amanda Laughtland’s Single Sentence Poem (or Short Prose) Challenge and Carolyn Hastings’s A Flight to Write.

I invite some of wonderful writer friends admire to participate in the challenge — Somsubhra Banerjee, TzeLin Sam, Dharan.M, Nandkishor Shingne, Yana Bostongirl, Jenine Bsharah Baines, Arbab Z.