For this year’s A to Z, I will be doing a collection of flash fiction featuring Steven, the MC from Blackbird, from right before he came to Newstead through his first year there.
L is for Left
The
road that butts up to the pier is empty. There aren’t even people out walking
like there normally is this time of night. It’s as still as the lake.
Was it more than just
Coach? I wonder frantically. Did I kill everybody?
Silence
is my only answer.
Three
choices flash through my mind; and I can’t do two of them. If I walk through
that town, and it’s as empty as I think it is…I shake my head. That’s just
something I can’t take. And I can’t go look for my mother; which just leaves
option number three.
I
close my eyes and start walking toward the left, toward Newstead.
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So riveting!!!
ReplyDeleteSome fantastic internal thinking here. Nice tension, Melanie!
ReplyDeleteSometimes, the worst thing to hear is...silence. Very well done :)
ReplyDeleteOh no, the plot thickens. It seems things could be a lot worse!
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