Friday Fictioneers is a weekly blog link-up based on a photo prompt. The Challenge – write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle, and end. (No one will be ostracized for going a few words over the count.) The Key – make every word count. Up to the challenge? Join in!
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“She bought the place sight-unseen,” my sister explained. “The agent said it was cheap because the previous owners had disappeared a year prior leaving everything behind, stressing the police had investigated and determined there was no foul play.”
“When my sister said that,” she continued, “I got a bad feeling, and said so, but she isn’t one to listen to ‘bad feelings’.”
Now I wish I had. Lying bound and gagged under the closet floor I couldn’t make a sound to tell her, or the cop she was talking to, that I was there and dying next to several corpses.
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100 words. A work of fiction. Hopefully that’s obvious, that I’m not writing this bound and gagged in a closet. 🙂 Feedback is always appreciated. Comments of any kind, really–so long as they are related to the post.
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This Is My Corn 
A little DARK, isn’t it?
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It is indeed quite dark, and a bit frightening.
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That’s disturbing – the stuff of nightmares. Speak to someone; you can get help.
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Nightmares indeed!
I do wonder, though, if anyone ever told HP Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, or even Dexter’s Jeff Lindsey this? They’re pretty creepy and could probably use an hour or two on a therapist’s couch (although it’s nearly a century too late for Lovecraft and decades so for Christie). 🙂
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Grand!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Ooh, creepy. I like it! Nice take and unexpected!
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Thank you Amy! This was not the original direction I intended for this story, but when I got to the line of cheap real estate because of disappearing owners, the truth of the story revealed itself.
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This is a nightmare that I don’t think she will wake up from. Too bad she can’t ram her head into the floorboard to make a noise. Oh well, Nan 🙂
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No, it doesn’t sound like there will be a happy ending for her. Hopefully the police investigate a bit more thoroughly this time.
(I had to laugh at “ram her head” – clever!)
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Yeeks. I guess she found the previous owners. And possibly also the postman, pizza delivery boy…
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I guess she did! This killer has been at this for a while.
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Oh, yuck! (Deliciously so) I can’t imagine being buried alive with dead people. Well done
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Thank you!
I can’t imagine it either. Except I did to write the story. shudder
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Dear Melanie,
Never buy real estate sight unseen. Creeeeepy.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Especially if it’s below market value.
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This is a wonderful little story, scary stuff indeed.
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Thank you so much!
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I guess you could say that her sister was “floored” by the sale.
A little lightness for a dark story, eh.
Randy
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Nice. A little gallows humor goes a long way. 🙂
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Giving Steven King a run for his money in 100 words…
Well done!
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Stephen King…what a great compliment. Thank you!
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Melanie, Creepy, scary stuff.
They need sniffer dogs in that place. It looks like the rest of them have head colds. I guess that finding them will have to wait for renovations or a tornedo. Well written. 🙂 —Susan
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Thank you!
Hopefully it’s more obvious to the police now that there is foul play happening here. Who knows. Maybe the killer is one of them and that’s how he gets away with it.
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Creepy story!
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It is creepy. I’m a bit creeped out that I came up with it. 🙂
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it’s like looking at real estate via the internet . . . make sure you go look at it before any deal goes through. 🙂 solid story, Melanie!
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Thank you Sun.
Funny story, that’s how I rented the apartment I’m in now. I found it, toured, secured, and leased it all online – sight unseen. After writing this story, though, that’ll be the last time I do that!
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