CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT
posted by Anthony North | June 16, 2009
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IcerocketFiction: He didn’t believe in such tales. Oh sure, he’d heard all about the barn – how people fear to go inside at night – how you could disappear for ever in there. But he was a big fellow, rational, and he wasn’t about to be put off by ridiculous folk stories. As he approached, a lantern light from deeper in the barn shone on a man and woman in the door. He felt comforted by this and immediately thought, why do I need to feel comforted? There’s nothing to it. He walked into the barn, approached the people …
He didn’t believe in such tales. He’d heard about the barn – how people disappear. He was a small, rational fellow. As he approached, a lantern light from deeper in the barn shone on a big man in the door …
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flash fction
— Jun 16, 2009
Ah! I had planned to leave it there on a cliffhanger, hinting at a neverending cycle. I've been working on this form of very short flash fiction on a daily basis. I'll have to have a think - see if I can take it somewhere.
Rudya, if it was autobiographical, I'd have to be dead ;-)
