LAURA LEE LUCAS

Women in Horror Month Microfiction: First Snow

2/1/2021

 
The sirens have just stopped, but their wails still tingle in my ears. Above me, the sky is a flat sheet of glowing grey-white. I know the terrain all around me as closely as I know the map of my veins, the topography of my own skin, so I know there is no cave or house or building near enough for me to reach before the snow begins.
The sirens give a two-minute warning, no more, sometimes less. The snow will melt my cotton clothes and leather coat and boots before I can even get in sight of shelter. Winter has never come this early, not in my memory.
The rabbit I caught, the one I chased all the way out here, wriggles in my trap. I release it, and let him run. May his feet bring him better luck than my empty stomach brought me. I can smell the sudden cold in the air, the death of everything that breathes and grows.
Off to my left, I hear a faint sizzle. A black maple tree has a yellow-edged hole in one of its leaves that is spreading slowly, burning the leaf into white flecks of ash.
From the corner of my eye, I see a snowflake fall.

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Matte Blk link
6/23/2021 05:37:32 pm

Just trying to bestow MY elucidation
which helps YOU reach your destination
where WE can write zillions-O-books in
our effusive exaggeration (amidst the stars):

On October 30, 1985,
not far from my house,
we lost our lives:
Im so ready to die now
(Im a Near Death Experiencer -
saw a lil of Seventh-Heaven):
to live! love! exponentially!
to VitSee-harmony for eternity!!
2RITE w/a passion 999×999×999+
milliquadrillion... novels in ♡OUR♡
exalted, extravagant excess!!!

Are you? If you aint, miss adorable,
why donchoo make like a choochoo
and high-tail it into Seventh-Heaven
so we can eternally party-hardy, girl
(skuze d’New Joisey axent)!!

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