21.8.07

Ministry Fiction Irritant #007

Kugler suggested exchanging 100-word noirs. I'm cherry-picking the titles and then writing the story to work against them. This first one runs long.

Grace Falling, Grace Caught

There were two girls named Grace in the Senior Class at Liverdown High School. Grace Falling came from a poor family and she knew to keep quiet lest anyone think she was vulgar. Grace Caught was the hell-raising daughter of the Deputy Sheriff. Their parallel lives had never intersected.

Grace Caught's BMW slammed to a stop on the road leaving Liverdown. There was a plume of orange beyond the tree line. She grabbed her cell phone and got out of the car. She climbed down the embankment and walked away from the road. The orange turned black and filled the sky.

She pressed her cell phone and eventually said, "Daddy. The Masthof Farm."

Beyond the farm, through the haze of the smoke, Grace Caught saw a woman walking towards the forest. This woman wore a cheap navy dress and carried a red canister. Grace Caught's eyes burned and when she looked again the woman was gone.

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