Furious Fiction May 2021
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T KNOW FURIOUS FICTION IT’S A WRITING COMPETITION RUN EVERY MONTH THROUGH THE AUSTRALIAN WRITERS CENTRE. EACH COMPETITION FEATURES PROMPTS YOU HAVE TO INCLUDE TO CREATE A STORY OF NO MORE THAN 500 WORDS IN 58 HOURS.
MAY PROMPTS ~ MUST BE SET DURING A STORM, USE THE WORDS MOTHER, APPLE YESTERDAY, INCLUDE THE PHRASE SAT/SITTING ON A FENCE
Vengeance
Ash watched totally fascinated while the storm raged around her. Sitting on the fence feeling the sensation of cold rain pelting down, listening to the thunder rumbling through the sky, bolts of lightening occasionally slamming into the field. Ash never once let her gaze stray from the woman who’d betrayed her. She just took another bite of her apple and stared straight ahead, watching her resentfully.
Her mother stood in the middle of the field tied to a pole, immobilised with the menacing storm raging around her. Every strike of lightening getting closer to hitting her mother.
“Why are you doing this?”
Ash didn’t move just took another bite of her apple. She’d heard her mother yell, a normal person wouldn’t have been able to, but she was very far from normal. That’s why she was here, sitting on this fence, watching her mother, waiting for the perfect moment to let her anger rage.
It was yesterday when she’d found out what her mother had done. Ash had been sitting there in the kitchen where she’d grown up. One second she’d been drinking coffee with her mother, then the window had exploded and tear gas had filled the room. Her eyes and throat had burned. Her mother fell to the floor gasping for air and Ash had barely been able to stay upright. Before she could process what was happening, the door was breaking and people were rushing towards her. She tried to use her abilities, but something had been jabbed into her neck drowsiness flooding her body. In moments she’d been bound and dragged away. Her abilities temporarily stunned, she hadn’t been able to fight back. She was roughly thrown into a van and driven away. The whole process taking only seconds.
She knew the effects of the sedative wouldn’t last long, but those minutes had been enough to bring her world crashing down. She’d heard her abductors laugh while they called her a freak, laughed about watching her get dissected. Heard them mention the payment made to her mother.
Ash had managed to escape, killing her abductors. Then she’d set about finding the truth. She’d traced the payment made to her mother, caught her mother destroying every picture, and every trace of her existence when she’d gone back home. So now here they were facing off. And Ash was ready.
Ash snapped her fingers and brought her mother towards her, she forced her mother to her knees. “I know what you did.” She didn’t wait for her mother to say anything, nothing would save her now. She used her ability and lightening streamed from the sky, slamming into her mother until she fell limp and lifeless to the cold, wet ground.
Ash smiled, satisfied with her work. She jumped off the fence, landing lightly on her feet. Then she turned and walked away, leaving her mother’s charred body behind, the storm washing away any evidence Ash had ever been there.