Horrendously Hairy
We continue the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge, in which I attempt to write a 100-word flash fiction story every day for the month of April. On Saturday, the commenters gave me some wonderful prompt suggestions, a couple of which I will no doubt use for other flash fiction pieces. The one I chose for today’s story was suggested by One Of Us Has To Go:
HORRENDOUSLY HAIRY
It wasn’t a particularly large spider… if you live in Australia. But here in Upstate New York, it was a monster.
We stared each other down, me in sweat pants and t-shirt holding a pan. Him with his beady eyes and hairy legs. Like my ex-boyfriend. I managed to get rid of him; maybe I can persuade Itsy-Bitsy here to go without any bloodshed.
But he moved in my direction, and I knew this would end in murder.
I disposed of the body, washed the pan, and cleaned the mess on the counter.
I guess it’s easier second time around.
What letter “I” prompts do you have for me for tomorrow’s story…? 🙂
P.S.: If you’re doing the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge too, don’t forget to provide a link to your blog when you comment.
Macabre but brilliant. Well done Colin!
Ideas for I. What about iodine or ignorant? J x
Thanks, Jane. I was quite pleased with this one myself. 🙂 I like the suggestions!
You sure you’ve never been Down Under 😉 (actually, the largest spider I’ve removed from the house was about the size of a saucer, including legs – and we have them often as I only remove them when they get that big cause then they freak the Barbarians out).
Ice, icicle, igloo… guess where winter is approaching!
Wow! I don’t mind dealing with spiders in the house, but that big??! It usually seems weird to me that y’all are getting ready for winter this time of year. But this year in the US… not so much!
But that poor defenseless spider!!
I is for I’m Impressed you can Invent these Icky stories so Immediately.
Dena
https://denapawling.blogspot.com/
Hardly defenseless. They can bite! 😉
Thanks, Dena. I’m not sure what it says about me, but if y’all are enjoying them…
I wouldn’t use a pan but it works.
suggestions:
immune to myself
I’m still missing you
it’s a sinful day
have a lovely day.
my latest a-z post is:
fiction: he
Perhaps the pan suggests the size of the spider… 😯 Thanks for some interesting prompts!
Hey, yay, horrendously hairy made the headline. Awesome!!
“Incredibly enormous” for “I”.
“Horrendously Hairy” summed up a massive spider quite well, so thanks for the prompt! 🙂