Drabble: Conundrum
Title: Conundrum
Author: Rebcake
Characters: William & Drusilla in 1880
Prompt: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
William felt so odd after he crawled out of his coffin and collapsed onto the ground. Since he’d just dug himself out of his own grave, oddness was only to be expected.
He regarded his soil-caked hands. His hair and clothes were just as polluted. His glasses were gone, but he could see every star in the sky.
He was concerned about mother. She’d be distraught, if she’d buried him.
A beautiful woman bent over him, smiling.
“I am she who gave you death,” she said.
Dead? That couldn’t be right. He’d never felt so alive, so free, so strong.
FIN
Author: Rebcake
Characters: William & Drusilla in 1880
Prompt: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
William felt so odd after he crawled out of his coffin and collapsed onto the ground. Since he’d just dug himself out of his own grave, oddness was only to be expected.
He regarded his soil-caked hands. His hair and clothes were just as polluted. His glasses were gone, but he could see every star in the sky.
He was concerned about mother. She’d be distraught, if she’d buried him.
A beautiful woman bent over him, smiling.
“I am she who gave you death,” she said.
Dead? That couldn’t be right. He’d never felt so alive, so free, so strong.
FIN