Sunday Flash Fiction Special #2

Each Sunday in April, I’m posting a piece of 100-word (or fewer) flash fiction I wrote for a Janet Reid writing contest (see HERE for the full explanation). Here’s this week’s:

THE TWICE IS NICE ALAFAIR BURKE WRITING CONTEST

(July 26, 2013)

Must include: Art. Jersey, Lily, Double, Kiss

My entry:

I’m so sleepy, the bird crap on my lily pad is the double of a painting in a New Jersey art gallery—the one where I met the girl who changed me. How was I to know she was a witch? Now I dread French accents and the smell of garlic.

My stomach lurches as I’m whipped up in a small hand.

“Put that down!” a man says, and the hand does, but not before planting a kiss on my head.

“That’s my princess,” I hear the voice say before I drop below the water’s surface.

I can’t breathe…

See you tomorrow for my “L” story…