55 Words #39: The Omen

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Every eye watched her, and he knew she knew it.
Nerves jangled as he eyed the ring, surreptitiously slipped around the tip of the cue.
She wriggled her backside, grabbed the cue and aimed. She never noticed the sparkler spin off and fly across the room as she took the shot that broke his heart.

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Written for 55 Word Challenge. Choose a picture and write a story in no more than 55 words… see here for other great entries!

PS. Here’s a link to my 13-year-old’s go at this week’s 55 Words: Secret Hero.

55 Words #33: The Graveyard Train

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The train’s cold, hard, easy-to-clean stainless steel fittings were a godsend. My stop approached and I clutched my bulging bag on clenched knees. The bag jerked, I held it close; beating hearts were such a pain, but I needed at least one for the wife…who waited patiently beneath the swirling fog of headstone seventy three.

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Written for the 55 Word Challenge. Choose a picture (or two if you want to overachieve!) and write a story using no more than 55 words.

55 Words #29: Rupture Within the Day of Night

Art by DaStafiZ via Jezri’s Nightmares

The only constant was gone, the menacing tick tock of the ancient clock vanished…instead night encompassed the house, and outside sapphire blackness surrounded the pair as they stared in disbelief. 

Before them a fissure ruptured, a rent in time, sparkling and mysterious, and the stars beyond winked at them.

“What are we waiting for?”

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This is for the 55 Word Challenge. Choose a picture and write a story using no more than 55 words. See Jezri’s Nightmares for more great entries…

55 Words #28: Lost Light

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Nearing home, her shattered heart finally dared believe and hope’s spark ignited her fragile soul. The beacon shone, illuming the valley, spurring her on. She trudged, eyes never wavering from the single flicker of light across the hills.

Almost home then it vanished, swallowed by indigo black and a crystal dagger splintered her shivering soul.

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55 Words #26: Fount

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It wasn’t difficult to hear the rumble and hiss deep below the only vegetated patch of earth for miles, and new spirals of emerald ivy gave hope in desperate times.
The ground shook and the hydrant finally fractured…precious water spurted then gushed and the roar of the waiting crowd drowned out the thunderous fountain.

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@LastKrystallos

This is for the 55 Word Challenge. Choose a picture and write a story using no more than 100 words. See Jezri’s Nightmare’s for further entries…

55 Words #24: Hanging

He hung, his widow wept and his child sobbed.
“We don’t accept no mutations round here, see?”
The child watched as the village moved away, still throwing jibes at the dangling corpse.
“Nothing different, see?”
The widow’s white hand clenched the boy’s arm and his eleven, terrified toes curled in his worn out leather shoes.

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Picture by William Cook ‘Just Hanging Around’

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55 Words #17: Reaching for the Moon

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She sat, head to one side and purred. Last time she’d asked for the moon it had been a full moon and after he’d stretched for the luminous reflection he’d emerged both saturated and humiliated, not a good combination for a cat. So this time she was just happy he still reached for the impossible.

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This is for the 55 Word Challenge. Choose a picture and write a story using no more than 55 words…