Flash Fiction / Micro Fiction
Length - 100 words each
Three pieces written for the competition theme
'Unlucky Halloween'.
* 'Brave' finished 2nd place in the competition!
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Committed
Halloween is my
time, and this year, like the shops I started early. I was committed, as they
say, or should be, and wild accusations had me confined under house arrest.
On the
night I almost gave up hope, scuppered by rain and reputation, until one little
Robin Hood got separated from his family.
I
offered him one of my beloved spider cakes, but he refused, months of hunting
behind furniture wasted. I thought to win him over and ushered him inside.
That he
recognised my hand crafted decorations as his missing kid sister was just plain
unfortunate. For him.
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Kiss of Death
'You're not gonna believe it! I kissed Jennifer! It was...
magical!' Jordan beamed, eyes fixed on Dave's wizardly cloak. 'I heard her in
the cafeteria, she's come as an angel. And I used this!' He pinged his mask
back over his smug face.
'Yeah
mate, but so did her sister...' Under the mask Jordan's face was unreadable,
but there was a weight to the silence that followed. 'Mate, everyone saw it.'
'Wait,
everyone? Even...' Dave nodded his head in mock solemnity, and Jordan felt a
tap on his shoulder. He turned slowly, and came face to face with the reaper.
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Brave
I slipped away from the others under cover of the storm,
running a finger along the police tape that lined the path to the door.
'I've
come for my sister.'
I
pulled back my green hood and buffeted him over the threshold. He tried to
distract me with poisonous edibles, but I pushed deeper into his lair.
Then I
saw her, everywhere, she lined the walls.
I
screamed my fury, but it was only one more cry against the chorus of this
unhallowed night. My one chance cruelly reversed.
I spied
an empty place on the mantelpiece, undoubtedly my own.
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