Different Day, Different Face
Fiction Shorts word of the day: Covet
“Absolute perfection,” Wayne mutters to himself, watching the young man walk down the street, choosing him as his next victim.
At seventy years of age, Wayne admires the young man’s youth, vitality and wrinkle free skin. The perfection that drives Wayne to follow in his victim’s footsteps, stalking his prey.
After a turn into a dark alleyway, a gunshot sounds. A chest wound that is fatal, leaving the deceased’s face unblemished.
Wayne gets to work with a nip and a tuck, carefully extracting the perfection that will become tomorrow’s mask, giving him a resemblance of that which he highly covets.
This drabble has been written as part of the daily Drabble Drop challenge and today's random word, that must be included in the drabble, is 'covet'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful idea in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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You creatively addressed to the readers!
Oooo, he's so sneaky! Gotta learn from him hahahahaha. Loved your drabble!