Wednesday 23 May 2018

Flash Fiction - About Last Night

This week's 100 word story based on the following picture prompt.



About Last Night 


I gently push open the door and tentatively enter. I need to see this for myself. The house, my sanctuary, has been turned upside down. Absolutely nothing has been left untouched. I feel sick as I make my way to the kitchen. The mouth-wateringly expensive, stunning crystal bowl, a precious wedding gift that takes pride of place on the dining table, is cracked. A strange sticky residue lines the edges. My favourite plant, mutilated, leaves carelessly tossed aside. Devastated at the damage, I take a deep, angry, breath before calling upstairs.

‘Chloe, what the hell happened in here last night?’


Bettina x 


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11 comments:

  1. Dear Bettina,

    The thought of the bowl with a crack in it leaves me feeling sick, too. Then you turned the story on its head with the last line. Well done.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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  2. It's funny how many stories about domestic (or other) violence have been inspired by this simple image.

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  3. Chloe is in big trouble - incidently my daughter is a Chloe - I may shout this exact line in years to come! :-)

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  4. Well written, Bettina. You make the loss and damage feel personal. You create a sense of desecration about the damage, because the house is the narrator's sanctuary.

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  5. One of your best, Bettina. Very well done.

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  6. Someone has some explaining to do! Nice one Bettina

    Click to read my FriFic tale

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  7. Kids! They have so little respect for parents' property sometimes. Well written.

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  8. Very vivid story. Chloe has some explaining to do, I think, Jilly, Sugar on the Bee.

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  9. I thought it was vandals...then found out it was Chloe. Yikes! Good job.

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