Challenge
October 2024 Drabble Challenge: Spooky
Halloween is upon us. Give me a spooky prose story in exactly 100 words using standard English, punctuation, and spelling. Stretch those flash-fiction claws and rake them across the screen with a gut-wrenching tale of woe and horror.
Please do not tag me, I'll read each entry and select a winner in early November. There is a HUGE CASH PRIZE of two hundred pennies for this amazing competition!
Cardinal Sin
The full moon thickens the blood— its gravitational ache lingers in the ears, throbbing, muting the clatter of a ceiling fan, the rain pelting a fifth-floor balcony’s glass door, and the explosion of porcelain shattering against skull.
Crawling, scratching, fleeing, his slut seeks liberation. Pathetic!
The voices grow clearer, always whispering in the dark, luring me further from the light, but they’re never wrong.
“Give her wings, and she’ll fly,” they insist. “He deserves better. HE DESERVES YOU.”
Her scream gurgles, choking on coagulation. I oblige them.
The babbling stops. His precious angel descends from heaven, carved with fresh wings.
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