You said you’d always love me. I said the same. Your hand touched me, soft, like swansdown. Unseeing, I folded my body inside the comfort of your embrace, nestling into your feathery warmth.
Too late I felt you move apart, your wings opening wide as you lifted upwards and away.
Pauline writes mostly crime, and has a novel published on Kindle in her pen name Paula K. Randall, Hangman’s Wood. She also enjoys writing in short bites. See more at wivenhoewritersblogspot.com.
I saw the creature dart into the woods. A fawn, I thought. The sun gleamed on its back for a second, then it was gone.
I watched as you got into the car. No sunlight gleamed this time, just dark clouds gathering overhead. But you were gone, just the same.
Pauline writes mostly crime, and has a novel published on Kindle. She also enjoys working in very short bites.
“Dance with me,” she said, holding out a skinny hand.
Mark felt the bones under her skin, saw the hollow eye sockets, heard the music floating through the night air.
With her arm around his waist, she led him into the throng of slow-moving dancers. “Come,” she said. “It’s time.”
Pauline Rendall writes crime as Paula K. Randall, and has self-published a novel under that name. She has a story in the collection In a Word: Murder. Pauline lives in Essex and loves opera and cats.