Revenge Best Served In 100 Words
Chuck Wendig offered a challenge to write a 100 word story on the subject of revenge. I gave it a whirl. Many words died to get here, and my keyboard is sticky with their blood. Enjoy!
THE FIVE HUNDRED DAYS
“Illegal time window?” Shadrack laughs. “How many times can a mother watch?”
Windows are costly-calibrated to one person, place, and moment. No help, weapons, or resets.
They savaged me with cyberware fists.
Coughing blood. Hugging child. Failed. Too late.
But there’s a second me, bandaged and crutched. More me’s watch-each a
day older, a day more healed. How many times? You can open a window
once a day. Each a day more deranged. Shadrack stops laughing when he
sees how many days. The eldest lope down like screaming Bacchantes.
Shadrack’s thugs come apart in my thousand dripping hands.