V is for Vengeance

Posted by Cate Tayler ⋅ April 25, 2012 ⋅ 3 Comments

Filed Under a to z challenge, flash fiction, micro-fiction

This is a piece of micro-fiction I wrote a while back. The challenge was to keep at at exactly 100 words. I hope you enjoy!

She trained the Ladysmith on the bearded man. His eyes widened. “You have the wrong person,” he protested. She ignored him, her eyes cold as marble. There was no mistaking his ragged breath, the swollen paws, the sneer that revealed a crooked canine. When he leered at her on the metro, she knew it was he who had held her down all those sleepless night ago. Wordlessly, she tugged the trigger. He cried out, falling over. She stared down at him, noticing for the first time the mole on his cheek. A mole the man who attacked her didn’t have.

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Mom, Wife, Writer, Catholic, Thinker, Reader, Amateur Gourmand, 'Phins Fan, Superwoman--not always in that order. Fueled by passion and too much caffeine. Lost my cape--it's buried somewhere under that mountain of laundry. Once I find it, look out world!

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3 thoughts on “V is for Vengeance”

Oh! What a horror, what a dreadful mistake. Great work, love the twist.

Posted by Glynis Smy | April 25, 2012, 12:48

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- Thanks! 🙂
  
  Posted by A Common Sea | April 25, 2012, 21:26
  
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Wow, what a challenge! It reminds me of the Twitter challenge, where you can only tell the story in 140 characters. I love the twist at the end!

Posted by OurSimpleLoveStory | April 26, 2012, 09:48

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