I’m on a distinctly morbid streak at present. This nasty little piece is for Sonya’s Three Line Tales prompt.
photo by Andrew Neel via Unsplash
“No, you can’t go play by the stream on your own and you know why,” their mother said emphatically. “It’s not safe.”
The two little girls played up in their room in a desultory fashion all afternoon as the sun shifted from one window to the other, and when it finally departed altogether, they opened the east window and let in their friend.
When their mother called them down to supper, only the wind answered, playing with the explorers’ banner they would never use.
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Gone to play with their friend? Creepy, creepy stuff Jane
I read a story like this in the Birstall News when I was little. Scared me to death.
Anything to do with small children is creepy, for some reason 🙂
The sugarier the child, the more we expect something awful is going to happen. Maybe we want it to happen 🙂
Wow! Chills.
Children are so good in horror stories 🙂
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Thank you!
I’ve been afraid of little girls playing alone ever since I watched Orphan. Two little girls, chills all over!
I’ve only ever watch a part of the trailer for that one. Nothing on earth would induce me to watch the film!
I watched it in a creepy hotel at 2am in Delhi with a few friends. Scarred for life!
You were really determined to do yourself damage, weren’t you?
😂
I love including young children in short stories when wanting to make the story even creepier. People always react just how I wanted then to when they feed back what they thought. It’s a sure winner.
Isn’t that weird? You’d think that children would automatically produce ah, isn’t that sweet? kind of reactions. Instead it’s the opposite.
And it’s those opposites that produce all the shock elements. 😀
So speaks a writer of genuinely scary stories 🙂
Creepy little story! I didn’t necessarily think the children were evil or creepy though–I thought they may have been duped by their friend. (For some reason, I read it as “new” friend, which perhaps makes it different.)
Like you, I don’t think the children are intrinsically creepy. It’s what they get involved in that’s creepy, and what that is exactly, we don’t know.
Exactly. 🙂
Oh no! hating the winds!
Good take.. 🙂
Ah, so you see the wind as the culprit? Interesting. I always leave these mysteries unresolved because I don’t have the right kind of mind to do it myself. The wind might be the answer.
I still hate the wind, for the moment! 🙂
Yeah. That indeed is interesting to know perspectives!
Now you’ve set that seed of an idea, it isn’t going to leave me alone. I’ll have to see if I can develop it.
😀 That could turn out interesting!
We’ll see 🙂
Loved where you took this, Jane! Creepy!
Thanks Shaun. Prakash suggested a way of continuing the story. Might post it.
Capture inspiration whilst it strikes!
Okay. It’s on its way 🙂
Thanks for keeping my New Years optimism at a minimum, Jane. A useful checks and balances tale.
Maybe you’ll find the bonus three lines more…not optimistic but less brutal?
Gone with the winds?
You have the same line of thought as Prakash. He suggested the next part.
Great minds think alike? 😊
Great outdoors minds maybe 🙂
😊😊