Since childhood, I’ve hidden the faceless doll for you to find.
Years passed and the hiding places grew ever more elaborate, but you never gave up.
Yesterday, I hid it in the flowers beneath your headstone.
But in the morning, there it was again: laid on the pillow beside me.
Joel O’Flaherty is a young writer from Surrey, U.K. His fiction has been featured in Flash Fiction Magazine, Globe Soup and Fusilli Writing, among others. He spends as much of his life as is financially responsible travelling the globe, which he writes about on his site, the Gossamer Traveller.
Made me cry!
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Top story! Very eerie!
Thank you :)
what a great twist good job
Thank you!
Totally creeped me out in a very, very good way. Great twist!
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Well done – creepy- someone call Hitchcock…
oh sorry 😐
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Excellent – way to end it with a chill!
Thanks! :)
This may just be the best 50-word story I’ve ever read!