Chuck Wendig offered a challenge to write a 100 word story on the subject of revenge. I gave it a whirl. Many words died to get here, and my keyboard is sticky with their blood. Enjoy!
THE FIVE HUNDRED DAYS
Illegal time window? Shadrack laughs. How many times can a mother watch?
Windows are costlycalibrated to one person, place, and moment. No help, weapons, or resets.
They savaged me with cyberware fists.
Coughing blood. Hugging child. Failed. Too late.
But theres a second me, bandaged and crutched. More mes watcheach a
day older, a day more healed. How many times? You can open a window
once a day. Each a day more deranged. Shadrack stops laughing when he
sees how many days. The eldest lope down like screaming Bacchantes.
Shadracks thugs come apart in my thousand dripping hands.
THE FIVE HUNDRED DAYS
Illegal time window? Shadrack laughs. How many times can a mother watch?
Windows are costlycalibrated to one person, place, and moment. No help, weapons, or resets.
They savaged me with cyberware fists.
Coughing blood. Hugging child. Failed. Too late.
But theres a second me, bandaged and crutched. More mes watcheach a
day older, a day more healed. How many times? You can open a window
once a day. Each a day more deranged. Shadrack stops laughing when he
sees how many days. The eldest lope down like screaming Bacchantes.
Shadracks thugs come apart in my thousand dripping hands.