and then … 2

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drama, Flash, haiku, poetry, short story, story

(Don’t know where I’m going with this)

Her non smile sought him

Being prudent and afeared

He followed his feet

and then …

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drama, Flash, haiku, poem, story, tale

Bland as buttermilk,

from the scrubbed kitchen table

she picked up the knife

light!

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dark, Flash, haiku, lightning, night, poetry, weather

outside in the night
black, not a single street light
raw white flash, lightning!

pancake

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face, Flash, grimace, pancake, prose, story

noticing a stranger’s grimace

He had a mobile face.
A face that, in times of negativity,
rage or despair, resembled a thin pancake
folding into the side of the pan.

Cat flick

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ailurophiles, barbaric, cats, cruelty, Flash, story, tourette's

On witnessing an assault

Though not generally a cruel person, the ease
with which she flicked the cat from the chair
had a certain barbaric, triumphant quality.
The family, ailurophiles to the core, experienced shock
as if a gardener had beheaded a favourite rose
or a priest displayed Tourette’s.
The feline was certainly not amused.

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