(100 word flash fiction)
Her eye sockets are filled with snow. She can feel it dripping into her empty cranium where once had pulsated red-hot rages and electric aliveness. Once. Long ago.
Sliding down her spine, past the throat that had sung arias and screamed with equal intensity. Once.
Through an empty ribcage where her heart had often wanted to burst its bars and explode. Once.
Past a vanished solar plexus that had blazed like a sun. Once.
It collects in her pelvis, where a tiny half-formed skeleton lies, surrounding it like amniotic fluid.
He had not known it was there. Her husband / murderer.
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This story just wrote itself. 🙂 So I have to post another FF for this week FF prompt –
PHOTO © Dee Lovering
That was chilling! I wonder, had he known, would she have survived?
Leo @ I Rhyme Without Reason
OMG that was graphic! Very chilling.
Thanks Sandra!
I hate seeing the dark shown, but, like the light, it too must be bared. A sad but well-done reminder of reality. 🙂
Thanks! True, you cannot have the light without the dark.
Chilling
The murder is chilling, but even more so is the detailed description of the parts, and actions, that bring the character to life (who seems to be aware still). I love it, it’s very unique. I wonder what it takes to find peace and let go of her mortal frame.
Thanks for the detailed high praise 🙂 Maybe some spirits return to show us the viciousness of our own nature.
Wow! Very gripping, what a image at the end! Nicely rendered.
Thanks Perry!
This was amazing! Chillingly so!
Thanks Dale. Unfortunately, a reality for some women whose only fault is their gender 😦
This was so good. That ‘Tiny skeleton’ rings all the right bells.
Top stuff.
KT
Thanks KT!
Oh, Joy, I could picture that. What creepy, dark, but great description. I hope they caught him. Well done. —— Suzanne
Lots of guys don’t get caught Suzanne, simply because in some places a woman’s life is not worth much 😦
“Empty ribcage….Once” had to have a dead body. Chilling and descriptive. Brilliant write up! 🙂
Thanks Norma
What an interesting take on the prompt.
Thanks!