He couldn’t do it.
For some reason, he couldn’t kill this one. He leaned in and stared at the eyes. He had never spent any time actually looking before. Sitting back on his heels, he felt the weight of the weapon in his hand.
He thought about the term “taking a life”. What was he taking? Ending a life. That’s what he was doing – what he had done countless times before. He would stop a heart. He would prevent any more air entering lungs. He would crush a body.
“Bloody hell, Carl! Haven’t you killed that damn spider yet?”
November 12 Prompt: Photobomb (Write a serious scene interrupted by something absurd)
Flash Fiction Challenge over at Carrot Ranch
Lemon Shark Reef 
Lovely, Sarah … but how many blogs can one woman have?
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Thanks. 🙂
I still have my one blog — Lemon Shark. I’m just thrilled I finally found time to set up the page that Flash Fiction Magazine offered me back in June!
I’m grateful to have a page on their blog (and to have a place to keep my fiction).
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Ha, ha! Cue the James Bond theme…007 spider assassin! Great twist to give us a hairy (8)legged photo bomb! Nice page!
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Bond, James Bond. Now I have that theme song stuck in my head. Thanks. 😉 Yes, icky creepy 8-legged photo bomb.
Thank you! I like the page — I think it will work out nicely having my flash here.
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Ha! Nailed it. Arachnophobes unite; or Dyslexic Arachnophobes untie!
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Haha! Dyslexic Arachnophobes Untie! I had to do a wee bit of research for this flash — Do spiders have lungs? Do spiders have a circulatory system? That sort of thing. I wish I hadn’t.
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Love this Sarah, wonderful twist at the end! You really had me going there. Love your flash fiction page too, looks amazing 🙂
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Thanks so much, Sherri. I wasn’t sure I managed the prompt this week.
I think the page will be a good place for my flash. Thank you. 🙂
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Okay so fill us in. Do spiders have lungs? Do they have a circulatory system? I have to admit I talk to spiders whilst I’m catching them to relocate so I’m assuming they have ears and can understand English. Great flash, great fiction repository and yes your flash worked well. 🙂
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Ugh. Blech. Okay… They have a heart. They have blood. They have “lungs” but not like ours — more like air enters through thingies. Basically I peeked through my fingers to get enough info to write this. Man, what I do for flash. 😉
I’ll have to look up whether they have ears but I suppose it depends on the species whether they understand English, eh?
Thank you!
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That was certainly a serious situation interrupted by the unexpected. The picture (photo) I had playing in my mind definitely was not that of spider. Congratulations on the flash fiction page! 🙂
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Thank you!
I’m glad it worked for the prompt. (Sorry for the nasty images playing through your head — makes the spider almost pleasant by comparison.) 😉
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