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There are two rocks in the field behind the cemetery. Everyone calls them the “Spirit Rocks” because they believe on every Summer Solstice, when the barrier between our and the spirit world is at its weakest, spirits would cross into our world to complete their businesses.
What kind of business? I have no idea. I know one thing. I don’t believe in spirit, at least not until I see them.
So that’s what I’ve set out to do this Solstice. Unfortunately, my nemesis of a brother has other things in mind. Oh, did I mention? We’re witches, at least, everyone seems to believe we have some kind of magical power.
“Face it Olivia,” Jake taunts as he stalks me through the cemetery. “You are just too chicken to unleash your power.” He’s not entirely wrong. I’m afraid but mostly, I just don’t know how.
“Leave me alone!” He chases me all the way to the rocks and I see it. The barrier, the great light between the rocks, the spirit world. Unfortunately, I didn’t see this coming.
(~175 Words)
I am participating in Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writer, where we write a piece between 100 and 150 words (more or less 25 words) in length inspired by the photo prompt above.
I bet you have a million questions. I do too and that’s why I’ve decided to post a full-length version of this story and add it to my short story collection. This is just a snippet.
Hi I’m Shreya!
Love the post. You have great content on your blog. Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I am relatively new to the blogging forum so please feel free to visit my blog and leave some feedback if you even find the time.
Enjoy your summer.
Smiles,
Shreya xx
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Thank you.
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This is excellent! You leave us hanging on a cliff. 🙂 Great story! Thank you very much for participating with FFfAW challenge. 🙂
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Thank you.
I’m going to post the complete story in a few days. Will it be okay for me to link the complete story in the inlinkz so some of the curious readers can find it?
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Rather than publishing the story itself in the InLinkz grid, post a link to your story with an explanation about the link so people will have the choice to go into the link and read it or not. I will allow it be done this way unless it causes problems, then I will have to ask you to stop.
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okay, that’ll be fine.
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Since your request is so new to me, I have been thinking about how best we can do this with your story and keep the FFfAW challenge posts somewhat separate. So if you have some ideas, let me know, I’m interested in hearing them.
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I think I’ll just link it back to the original post.
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I’m not really understanding, do you mean when you post your story you will put a link on the post to the longer version of the story? I guess I was thinking you were wanting an entirely separate story link on the grid besides your story.
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No, I’ll just link it back to my fffaw post.
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You are welcome to also link it from your weekly story. In other words, put a link in your story post where people can go to read a longer version of the story.
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What she didn’t see coming? Cliffhanger:(
Good written piece
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I guess we’ll see once I finish writing the entire story. Stay tune. I will post it in a few days. Thank you for reading. 🙂
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Welcome:-)
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Sweet ^_^
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I liked that she sort of believes in the veil but then misses it when it actually happens.
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I do like a good cliffhanger! Good story, Yinglan. 🙂
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Thank you.
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Nice work Yinglan ~ A very interesting take on the prompt ~ 🙂
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Thank you.
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Well, that was adventurous. Nice read.. 🙂
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Thank you.
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