Novice
For the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge this year, I’m posting a 100 word piece of flash fiction every day. It might be a self-contained story, or a scene–whatever, it’ll be fiction, and it’ll be over in a flash! Today’s story is…
Novice
I gave the man a benign smile from within my hood. The large cassock sleeves hid my sweaty palms. I had practiced many times; but this was for real.
We walked to the small chapel, and I ushered him inside. He knelt at the rail, and I came alongside him. I crossed myself. He glanced sideways.
“What now?”
“I have a message from Kallen,” I said, slipping my right hand into my left sleeve. Three thuds to the chest. The man fell.
I don’t know what scared me more: that it was my first hit, or that I enjoyed it.
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Great job. Like the last line.
~Patricia Lynne~
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Patricia Lynne, YA Author
Thanks, Patricia. Actually, I’m quite pleased with this one. Though it’s more the details and structural things I like about it than the actual story itself. 🙂
Ooh, an assassin pretending to be a monk. Love it!
Thank you, Melanie. I thought this would make for a nice twist, and a play on the word. 🙂
Well, it might be a good thing (for him) that he enjoys it since it’s apparently what he wants to do with this life. Bad for everyone else 🙂
Unless he knows it’s wrong… the dilemma of being good at something that is both illegal and morally objectionable. That could, in fact, be the basis of an interesting story… 🙂
Nicely done! (I guess that could apply to the assassin, but I meant you.) 🙂
I like the way you set up the scene, even with the brevity of words.
Thanks, Chuck. And the assassin thanks you too… 😉