Curse
I'm doing flash fiction for this year's A to Z challenge, hope you enjoy!
Curse:
It happened fairly quickly. People started getting ill; they quarantined the entire village, no one could go in or out. Then they started having hallucinations, saying they’d seen a woman in their house, wearing old fashioned clothes and muttering strange things. Then came the animals; cats, toads, owls, clustered around the homes of those who were sick, waiting, watching.
Soon I was the only one who hadn’t been affected by any of this, and I could think of only one reason why: I brought her back. The rest of the village were being punished, even though it was their ancestors who ended her life, so long ago.
I was being spared, as I was the one who had given her life again.
Everyone was cursed, because of me.
This one is kind of a follow-on from my A post.
Curse:
It happened fairly quickly. People started getting ill; they quarantined the entire village, no one could go in or out. Then they started having hallucinations, saying they’d seen a woman in their house, wearing old fashioned clothes and muttering strange things. Then came the animals; cats, toads, owls, clustered around the homes of those who were sick, waiting, watching.
Soon I was the only one who hadn’t been affected by any of this, and I could think of only one reason why: I brought her back. The rest of the village were being punished, even though it was their ancestors who ended her life, so long ago.
I was being spared, as I was the one who had given her life again.
Everyone was cursed, because of me.
Ooh, that's creepy. It's got the potential to be expanded into a much longer story. :-)
ReplyDeleteTalk about guilt!
ReplyDeleteOh dear - moving that slab was no such a good idea after all.
ReplyDeleteTasha
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Love your theme, I have given you a shout out from my blog today, enjoy the rest of the challenge https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/
ReplyDeleteBummer position to be in.
ReplyDeleteClever but is it them that are cursed because they are ill or is it you that is cursed for thinking you have made them ill. . . . . When I say you, I refer to the you of the story teller not you as in Miss Laura.
ReplyDeleteWell Done again.
Is there going to be a way out of it, to end the curse? Will there be a part 3?
ReplyDeleteSophie
Sophie's Thoughts & Fumbles
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Goody! goody! I love this one, thank you for continuing with the first story :) can't wait for the next (smiles hopefully)
ReplyDelete"Haneen/I Will Never Give you Up (479)"
Guess you're not the most popular person in the village! Good story brewing here.
ReplyDeleteWell, stop that! Great post.
ReplyDeleteOh, I wonder what will happen when they realized why they were being cursed and who caused it.
ReplyDeletebetty
Oh dear, that's a lot of guilt to handle!
ReplyDeleteAnnalisa, writing A-Z vignettes, at Wake Up, Eat, Write, Sleep
OOOH, that's so dark and creeptastic! I love it.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the 2015 A to Z Challenge!
A to Z Co-Host S. L. Hennessy
http://pensuasion.blogspot.com
Guilt can certainly feel like a curse. Awesome way of depicting it! :)
ReplyDeleteSins of the father. I don't believe a person should be punished for something their ancestors did but it makes a great story.
ReplyDeleteI would love it if you continued this story :)
ReplyDeleteI'd feel so guilty! Great story!
ReplyDeleteI love that story - so creepy and yet touching. Good luck on the A-Z, and have a lovely weekend!
ReplyDeleteYup, I knew that had to be a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteI find the sentinel animals most creepy.
Interesting. The plot thickens...
ReplyDeletethere is hardly any justice in the world, being punished for the sins of forefathers
ReplyDeleteA brilliant follow-on from Awoken, this has a lot of potential in it Laura.
ReplyDeleteNice bit of writing!
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