We held hands as the world ended. It was quite a show. We sat on your roof and watched the meteors fall and fires burn through the city. Whistle, flash, impact. You coughed from the dust and smoke. I unwound the scarf from my neck and wrapped it around you. You smiled at me, but …
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There is a monster in the house. Nobody senses it but me. It creeps along the floor as a malevolent shadow. I tuck my hands and feet inside my blanket cocoon. If the monster grabs hold, it will pull me beneath the bed and through the void to its world where untold terrors await me. …
At first nothing could be seen. Then the barest twitch. The petals peeled slowly back as the newborn faeries emerged from their flower cradles. Heads, shoulders, torsos in unnatural colours of milk white, pitch black, verdant green, and deep rose. The four faeries yawned and stretched as their eyelids fluttered open to take their first …
The wind billowed the girl’s skirt and set the flowers around her to gentle swaying. She stood in her grandfather’s tulip field as the blooms bobbed around her in rows of yellow, red, orange, and pink. The sky was a brilliant blue with cotton candy clouds scudding overhead. It should have looked like a painting. …
My mother’s nails dug into my arm as she yanked me from the faerie ring. She dropped me to my knees on the grass as she paced and raged. I watched her red face and heaving chest as she scolded. “I told you to stay away from the faerie rings!” It was an old argument. …
“Are you sure you wish to live here?” His guide frowned up at the gray stone before them. “This place is said to be full of ghouls and demons.” “Oh, yes! I’ve always wanted roommates!” He laughed and patted the man’s shoulder as he took his first steps up the castle’s cobblestone walkway. givethispromptatry.tumblr.com There are …