A new week brings a new “flash fiction” writers challenge from Friday Fictioneers. Thank you to the always gracious and talented, Rochelle. To be a part of this wonderful writers weekly challenge or read some of the awesome other entries click HERE!
My entry (for those who follow my blog) is unlike those I generally write which tends to be positive, loving and upbeat. Still I hope all you creative types out there enjoy this very temporary change of pace from me:
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She Plays So Well
“She plays so well,” he thought with undying admiration.
A virtuoso, her long slender fingers drifting delicately over keys with expertise rarely seen. He was only one of many applauding her amazing performance, but he was the lucky one asked to attend her in her dressing room after.
Happily sharing his love fully and completely, too late realizing he was also the one selected to replace depleted creative energy, he felt her demonic fingers drifting delicately over his body draining him of life.
“Ah, but she plays so well,” he thought even as his beating heart stopped in dying admiration.
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Thanks for your visit, I hope you enjoyed this playful rendition of life not going the way you thought it should. A good idea to remember sometimes things aren’t what they seem.
Have a great rest of the week and weekend to come. May your days be filled with only good and positive things!
With much affection,
~ Penny
The Why About This 
Niiiice 😀 A change of direction is always good, and you did it well my friend. I love that.
Thanks Al. I truly enjoyed writing this, I guess because it is so far removed from how I usually think or write! 🙂
Just slightly 😀 I love it
Eek! 😱
xo 🙂 🙂 ox
Okay so I got a smidgen carried away, well maybe a lot carried away, but it was fun! 🙂
This is great, like a succubus who crawled out of dreams into reality. This was certainly an interesting and fun journey to a different genre for you.
Thank you, so much. Yes it was. Totally a different take or perspective from my norm. But I never doubt even at my most positive that things can’t suddenly become nightmarish both in fiction and in life! 🙂 ♡
Oh – I have not visited your blog in a long time… Love the gothic way to make a virtuoso… Only blood can make music singe like that.
Hi, Björn. Thank you and I also have not visited in oh-so-long. Yes it is a truth isn’t it!
Glad to reconnect… 😉 I have missed your writing.
Thank you, kindly and I yours.
Nice and “Twilight Zone.” I hope she really was all that good.
Hey, Perry. Happy New Year! Yeah, she was most definitely “that” good!
Wow. I didn’t expect that from you. Well done. 🙂
Totally a change of genre, Susan. Thank you. I sort of felt like a little girl conjuring up the darkness! Only fiction and fun. ♡
How very dark. I wasn’t expecting that end at all. Good one.
Hi, Sandra. Truly. And thank you. I was surprised I could go there. Just had to rethink how I usually view things. Most devilishly fun, though.
Very unexpected. It’s nice to have a change isn’t it?
Hello, yes it is. Most enjoyable!
Wow. That was quite a tease to our imagination. Nicely done! 😀
Hello, Maria, thank you. I must admit it was a fun write, playing with words and plot! 🙂
I can see that you really enjoyed this one. Cheers, Penny! 😀
🙂 ♡
Ohhh very nice.
Didn’t see that coming. I like.
Thank you, so much.😊
Delightfully macabre.
And do you realise you pretty much stole my tag line?
But, as it’s you, it’s cool.
Thank you, much appreciated. Sorry ’bout that … not really! ♡
Consider it a gift sent with love.
Okay, I’m totally good with that! ♡
We are darkness and light. You have demonstrated both here Penny. Well done to bolt from your comfort zone. xx
Hi, Lesley. Thank you so much. Well said. I hope all is going creatively and spiritually well for you, dear friend. ♡♡