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DL SHIREY: The Witch

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By day her grave is littered with pentagrams and stumpy, gutted candles. On moonless nights, gothed-out teenagers chant her name at the stroke of twelve. They tell drunken stories of surviving her spells.

Before she died, the old woman’s only sins were berating trespassers and living with too many cats.

D.L. Shirey lives in Portland, Oregon, writing fiction, by and large, unless it’s small. His stories of 100 words or less have been published by 50-word Stories, The Drabble and blink-ink. Short of listing them all, visit dlshirey.com and @dlshirey on Twitter.

DL SHIREY: Barbarism

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The first one gets a careful trim; blade running along edges for a new, neat, well-sculpted line. For the second, I cut off the lobe completely. I hear people scream in reaction to my work.

There are worse things to do in a retirement home than reshape jigsaw puzzle pieces.

DL Shirey has had several flash fiction pieces published, most recently in Pound of Flash, Fewer Than 500, and The Literary Hatchet. He writes from Portland, Oregon, where it’s now raining, most likely. You can find more of his writing at his blog.