I am excited about a short book project I am finishing up with prose and flash fiction pieces combined with original photography. It’s going to be a short horror anthology for Halloween. Making a zine is not as difficult as I thought it would be and it’ll be a cool way to share my work locally. Purpose is to get my work out and read!
Morgana outline is slow going, been distracted by yoga teaching and important deadlines for school. Writing is my way to unwind and relax. Its been keeping me balanced.
Here’s my story for today, it’ll be up in the zine….
Swipe, Swipe, Swipe,
Left and Right, Left and Right
The young woman moved her index finger back and forth
Hoping to get matched with the latest handsome stranger
Little did she know, she was in for danger
As she continued to swipe,
a heart formed on the screen of her iPhone
A MATCH, finally, she let out a sinister giggle
“Let’s meet up tonight”
wrote the interested fool
“Meet me at the corner bar on K Street” she replied, excitedly, knowing she’s in for a night of free booze and food, a relief to her penniless bank account
After an hour, the night grew tiresome as the man had forgotten his wallet and she was stuck with the bill
Feeling agitated, due to the plan not working, she got up to leave
The man glared at her with an apathetic gaze filled with mischievous desire
Thinking that she was in for a midnight rendezvous,
the woman let the mystery man follow her home
As the streets grew darker and the clicking of the woman’s heels got heavier
the man followed closely, breathing deeply onto her neck
In the shadow of the street light, the woman spied the outline of a knife
Raised high in the air, above the outline of her own head
A shriek formed inside of the woman’s mouth, “ahhhhhhhhhh”
As the blade came down into her right shoulder
Searing pain rain through her body, trying to run,
The man followed her, striking once more,
And, the woman kept running, approaching her door
As her bloody hand reached to open the door, she caught her reflection
And blew herself a kiss, as she fainted onto a puddle of rainwater face first
-E.R. BUENDIA