Flash Fiction / Micro Fiction
Length - 100 words each
Three pieces written for the competition theme 'A Fresh Start'.
* 'Purple Emperor' was 'Highly Commended' in the competition!
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Ultimate Penultimate
He broke through the surface as the damned set the world
to wretched ruin, striding through chaos almost tearfully. A fresh chapter
amending a once concluded tale.
Screaming
women and children were tossed about like debris; gallant men cast first
helpless, then lifeless to their knees.
He
took a wailing woman in hand, his demonic skin an unstable molten red, and
gripped tightly until the light left her eyes.
'Where
are they taking them?' She asked. Above, the last angels escorted survivors
into the clouds.
'They'll
give up the Heavens for the Garden, my darling. Tonight we dine in Hell.'
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Purple Emperor
'Beware the royal contract.' His master had said.
'Treachery is the seal.'
The
reason assassination is seen as unbefitting a king, is because they usually
make a better job of clearing the trail back to them.
He'd
tasted so much noble blood he'd feared tampering his own heritage, but now the
blade was back with its rightful owner, returned as a lepidopterist's pin,
throne awash with the purple blood of an emperor.
Threats
of anarchy and civil war bled the wound he'd cut the kingdom, just one thing preventing
his new life in anonymity.
Choking,
you fall to the ground.
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First Flight
'By the power vested in me...'
Imagine
their faces, he thought, Mother will be going spare. By the look on his
bride-to-be's face she was thinking much the same.
Their
love had blossomed on the spontaneous, unpredictable and exciting. Since the
engagement they'd been pared back to convention by pushy family, friends and
expectation. But clip a dove's wing and it's not truly a bird, so this morning
they jilted the congregation and left for Vegas.
'You
listening to me, boy?' Their minister poked him in the face with his bejewelled
cane and they set about laughing. Love granted flight.
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