Out of time (Friday Fictioneers)
The lights were on. It was an amazing sight. I didn’t care.
Run! I had to run. I couldn’t stop.
My chest hurt, my throat, my side. I stumbled, over and over again and again I pulled myself up and kept moving. If I stopped…
It didn’t bare thinking about.
I heard a howl in the distance, closer than before. And then another from up ahead. Damn it! I was almost out of time.
If I could just reach the circle.
I fell again, scraping skin. Hell! I staggered to my feet.
“Found you,” a voice in the darkness said.
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Oh, great tension building here. Do I even want to think about what happens next?
I think the title says it all… But… You never know 😃
sometimes you just can’t run fast enough!
Indeed, my question is, is she running to or from? Thank you for reading. 😃
Ha ha true. And you know,in nightmares, you keep running and dont get anywhere
Hopefully it’s a bad dream, if not you could run and run with this.
My initial thought was that she was late for the theatre and was running to get to her seat in the circle…clearly I was wrong!
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Thank you! Very clever of you to pick that
An innocent game of hide and seek perhaps? Nice buildup of tension.
Thank you! It could be but those wolves sound ominous
EEEEK!
Lily
Oh dear.
Dear Laurie,
That was tense and the voice ominous. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle!
Ooh, that ending was pretty eerie. The voice in the darkness after all that running away. Very suspenseful, Laurie!
Thank you Amy. I hope she escapes!!
I love the ambiguity in your story. The howls, the voice – I don’t think this is a happy ending.
Thank you Margaret… I think you might be right 😬