Oh, it can be fun to go dark. It’s especially fun to go dark in the name of righteous vengeance.
This makes three weeks running of flash fiction based on prompts from the good folks over at The Prediction. If you’re into writing flash fiction, I encourage you to check the site out. They’re a very supportive group, so be sure to share your stuff.
It’ll do you good.
Here’s this week’s prompt:
100 words maximum, excluding the title, of flash fiction or poetry using all of the three words above (‘rampart’, ‘sewer’, and ‘unreason’) in the genres of horror, fantasy or science fiction.
the fury
“You’re being unreasonable,” he sputtered.
I’d just finished tying his hands.
“Unreasonable? You left my friend to the sewer rats.”
His eyes searched the room. For purchase. For rampart. For anything he could use to save himself.
I grabbed his chin, forcing him to face me. “How does the saying go? Hell hath no fury like…what was it?”
He shook his head. I pushed double barrels into his crotch.
“Hell hath no fury like what?” I demanded.
“A…a woman scorned,” he whimpered.
I smiled. “You’ll know soon enough.”
I fired.
First between his legs, then between his eyes.