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This was my entry for the first Cracked Flash Fiction Competition of 2017 on 8 January. The prompt was: ‘You’re one of them now,’ she whispered.
Grey Shades
By Ronel Janse van Vuuren
‘You’re one of them now,’ she whispered.
Chills swept over me as I watched the trio grinning in our direction. I didn’t want to believe it. Yet… Closing my eyes, I could still see everything around me, albeit in shades of grey.
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Twenty-four flash fiction tales filled with folklore and mythology, creeping in on the edges of nightmares, and twisting around the various sub-genres of fantasy.
What did you think? I wrote it early Sunday morning before I had my coffee – suddenly remembering I hadn’t entered CFFC yet had driven me from the warm comfort of my bed on a drizzling, cold summer morning.
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I think the concept of leaving one sister for a group of new ones is intriguing.
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Thanks, Raimey 🙂
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Ronel, you have a gift for short fiction! I love that you wrote it right out, before coffee. Sometimes I get really surprising results (and better) when I’m not quite conscious as I start my writing. 🙂 Kudos!
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Thanks, Theresa 🙂 The first “Tales of the Onyx Labyrinth” was also written while in that fog of barely conscious creativeness… it’s a story that’s been growing on me.
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I love it. Excellent writing; something I don’t think I can do before coffee. Lol! And, I am a little biased towards witches. 🙂
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Thanks, Anne 🙂 Hemingway said: “Write drunk. Edit sober.” I don’t think he found that magical place of creativity before being truly awake…
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Ah, that makes sense. Probably why I struggle because I am already critical even before I am done with my first sentence. Perhaps I need to go back to morning pages… if I could only wake up early enough. 🙂
For now, I shall absorb your creativity, and others’, and be inspired.
It’s my pleasure; a pleasure to read great works.
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