A thousand tiny things, each inconsequential in isolation, led to this moment. Was there a point I could have stopped it? Made it not happen? Laughter wells in my belly. Entirely inappropriate. Can’t stop it though. Shaking me until the tears flow.
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United we stand, divided we fall. With the obvious exception of the Berlin Wall. The fall of which united East and West Germany back in 1989. Not sure why I’m telling you that. Just popped into my head. Oh, you’re not listening anyway. Okay.
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Trees loom in the half light. Leaves whisper. The scrub at the side of the path rustles. Movement at the edge of sight. There! A shadow deeper than it should be. An animal frightened by my presence? Or should I be afraid of what waits in the dark?
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“Useless!” She rips the pages out of the notepad & chucks them in the bin before stomping to the shop for a medicinal chocolate bar. By the time she returns, Bounty in hand, after a chat with Mrs Miggins on the till, her words seem worth rescuing.
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The plan was simple, yet putting it into action took months, waiting patiently for the perfect circumstances. It paid off though; he was dead, his mistress jailed for his poisoning, and she - his “grieving widow” - was free & inherited everything.
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Fox fire flared in the night sky, clothing Orion in ripples of purple, green and blue. Below, on hill top, the light show was reflected in the wide eyed wonder of those awake to witness it; burning gleaming star trails through their imaginations.
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Ugly.
Embarrassing.
Incompetent.
Useless.
Worthless.
A waste of space, energy, and time.
His repeated whispers burned into her brain.
It took years to learn they were lies.
Now she’s the one sharing whispers; no lies told but no secrets kept either
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His behaviour was neither forgiven nor forgotten. Instead it was turned into a not so secret third thing; taking the pain and misery he inflicted over the years & using it as fuel to power a new life. One filled with kindness & creativity & joy.
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The silence was a shock. Having spent my life with only a theoretical understanding of the term, thanks to the limitations of my body, the reality was pure, unexpected, blissful.
So … no taxes, no tinnitus. What other blessings would death bestow?
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Twanging chords & clothes a-glitter, she was flashing smiles & tipping her hat to everyone she saw. And that was all they remembered, after, the costume & the shine. Not her face, not her accent, & certainly not where she went with all their cash.
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Anxiety twanged through her, tautening muscles, setting in her heart pounding. She forced raggedy breaths through clenched teeth - one, two, three, four - until she could move & then the beat of her feet on pavement & path drummed the stress away.
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It was all over the newspapers. The Times lead with “Evidence of Egg Laying Leporidae Found”, the Mail “Rabbits coming for Chicken’s Jobs” while the Sun had “Easter Bunny Real!!”. None of them noticed the date on the “exclusive” they’d been sent.
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Feet planted solidly on the sand. Waves pushing at her toes. Sun kissing the horizon; setting the sky aflame even as the cold salt air whipping through the dunes puts out the fire in her chest.
For one perfect moment there is silence in her soul.
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The front room was ruined. Paint, glue & glitter on every surface, even the ceiling. Her expression must have been eloquent as she’d not even spoken when her daughter piped up with “Miss Davies said every day should be an educational experience.”
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As her body shifted, skin becoming scales, smoke pouring from her nostrils, she knew she’d been a fool to accept tea from a warlock assuming “Dragon” was a brand.
When he went to speak again she silenced him with fire.
She wouldn’t be fooled twice.
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She’d seen the pattern two examples in but bitter experience kept her silent, even when Mr Lewis opened it to the room. As her classmates made wrong guesses she schooled her face into safe blankness for the 5 minutes until the bell released them.
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She read as slowly as she could, refusing to rush the only book she had. Even so, she finished it before the light from the chink in the rubble faded & resorted to playing stories in her head like movies as she waited, hoping for sounds of rescue.
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I’d’ve called him a bald faced liar but between his beard, moustache & the birds nest on his head there was barely any skin visible. I settled for muttering “wanker” once my receipt had been checked & I was safely in the car park with my shopping.
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Eileen was appalled by both what her body was getting up to now she no longer inhabited it and the fact she was aware of the situation. Fifty seven years of strict vegetarianism and absolute certainty life ended at death ruined by one zombie bite!
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Neither starting afresh, nor continuing old ways that no longer served, Amy had found her own way into the New Year. On a roll with new habits started back in October she just kept going, each day another step along the path she'd taken for her own
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After finally hearing the song Krampus realised “all of the other reindeer” needed punishment, so he arranged a little surprise. This year Rudolph had the night off & he, Krampus, held the sleigh’s reins, birch rods ready for some serious whipping.
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23:57. Amy squeezed her eyes closed, waited. Bells jingled; hooves clip-clopped towards the chimney, a heavy thud. She crept downstairs, but she saw nothing. Instead, a goat-like nightmare with hairy hands bound her in chains and carried her away. #microflashmonday #whqcommunity
They were, they assured each other, doing the right thing. After all, consuming liberal amounts of wine then doing the conga through the entire building was THE office Christmas party tradition. So what if this year the wine labels said Buckfast?
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Orthodoxy Vs Liberal
He just burst into my bedroom and woke me from the best sleep I 'd had in ages. Marry him and live happily ever after? I think not. I've just woken up to all life's possibilities.
Unity used gossip like a knife, cutting through friendships, partnerships, communities; anything that got in the way of her ambition. Divide & conquer wan’t just a phrase to her. It was her maxim. The rule she lived by. Why she reigned supreme.
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Prompt: UnityvsDivision
I LOVED it! The #WHQCommunity is 🌟🤩🌟!
Here are links to some of the books I mentioned:
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A Book of Surrealist Games
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I just hit 200 subs for 2023! 😱
42 accepted, 85 rejected, 65 withdrawn, 8 still undecided.
Pretty proud of that 👍
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“We’re pirates!” Ed & Ann yelled as they ran at their cousin, brandishing sticks & waving a black rag with chalk scribbles on it. “Pirates?” Francis’ voice dripped with as much distain as a 9 year old can muster. “How common. I’ll be a privateer.”
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Pirate vs Privateer
Hey hey lovely writers, it's Micro Flash Monday! Today's prompts are LAND vs RIGHTS. Wang up a super quick Twitter length story and send it over for you eyes. We want your stories! Remembe to tag with the hashtags #whqcommunity #microflashmonday
#MicroflashMonday #WHQCommunity Knowledge vs Ignorance
Fear grips you. You find an answer - an online group that explains it all. Key pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Others are locked into their ignorance, but you know what is going on.
*I confess I used this before, but I do like it
