Jake Bible Fiction

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Welcome back to another Friday Night Drabble Party!

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Left To Haunt
by
Jake Bible

Lost in thought, Gary faced the glass doors and stared into the street beyond.  Throngs of people out for the Holiday shopping season packed the sidewalks.

“Gary.”

There was a woman outside. There were many women, but one in particular pulled him from his thoughts. Her eyes. Cold, black, empty, dead. So dead.

“Gary!”

He shook his head and turned. His wife stood there, puzzled.

“Lost you there,” she said and smiled.

“Yeah, sorry,” he said, returning the smile.

His attention returned to the street, but the woman was gone, only the memory of her eyes left to haunt him.

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More Like Impossible
By
Jake Bible

The way out was blocked.

Of course it was.

Helen stared at the cave in. She stared at the stacked boulders and the small rocks that trickled down from the top of the massive pile that stood between her and freedom. She stared at the improbable –more like impossible– turn of events.

The thing howled from deep within the cave, having caught her scent once again. Helen shivered at the sound. It just never gave up.

Helen climbed the boulders and began to yank the rocks free. No way she was giving up either. That thing could kiss her ass.

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