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Noises Off
Jan. 28th, 2021 10:50 amThe first thing I'd like to share is a creepy little 75-word story written for and published in Paragraph Planet. There's quite an art to writing an entire story in so few words and it's something I really enjoy battling with; I'd like to think this is one of my better efforts!
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Noises Off
The chair rocks in the empty house. Nothing and no-one about. No cats, no sudden gusts of wind.
"Creepy," says Jack with a shiver, but Felicity's unimpressed.
"It's a hoax - look at these wires. Somebody set us up." She flips the circuit breaker. The lights go out, the rocking stops. "Told you."
They pack up and leave - there'll be other stories for the magazine.
In the darkened house, the chair rocks by itself...
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Noises Off
The chair rocks in the empty house. Nothing and no-one about. No cats, no sudden gusts of wind.
"Creepy," says Jack with a shiver, but Felicity's unimpressed.
"It's a hoax - look at these wires. Somebody set us up." She flips the circuit breaker. The lights go out, the rocking stops. "Told you."
They pack up and leave - there'll be other stories for the magazine.
In the darkened house, the chair rocks by itself...
