Mistress Elsha Hawk's published ficlets
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Easy Target
She was as blank as canvas and less absorbent than a waxed floor. For a fifth grader, she’d better figure out how to get it t…
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Punk Rocker Alter Ego [J.B. dream challenge]
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A Revelation Over Cereal [Realization challenge]
The alarm clock went off.
crap. it’s too early! I think.I drag myself down the hall to the bathroom. I turn on the blind…
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It Must Have been A Dream [Deja vu]
It was the FIRST full day home with my new baby boy. I sat cross legged on the couch in front of the TV not really watching a…
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Stuff of Fairy Tales (silly story)
It wasn’t a fine day when the merfolk stormed the shore. They didn’t go very far before they met an army of angry pixies that…
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Smitten [deja vu challenge]
I was driving to work and I passed a teenager driving herself and two friends to high school. I smiled to myself.
I remember…
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Royal Interference [Hear Ye challenge]
It had been a long journey. Why did towns or villages have to be so far apart?
I handed my mule’s reins to the stableboy of …
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Newborn Hope
The tiny creature flitted around my head and shoulders, pleased with itself, having hatched, dried, and instinctively begun i…
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The Unexpected
I wandered around in the darkness. I noticed that it wasn’t completely dark. It was as if the sky were stained with dark berr…
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Mirror Challenge Winners
With so many entries, I had to put them in categories! Some entries were cute or comical, most were disturbing or eerie, a co…
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What More Nightmares May Come
I didn’t know what to do about the nightmares. I couldn’t do what the creepy dead pirate seemed to want me to do, find his tr…
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What Nightmares May Come (cont.)
In my slumber my heart began to race. He was grotesquely withered and sinewy in the face, but his bones under the water had b…
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What Nightmares May Come
I was afraid to close my eyes, but sometime during the night, I did. I knew the dreams would come, as surely as I knew I woul…
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It's What's Inside That Counts [BARomero nameless challenge]
I stand and look in awe at this little tiny cylinder. I can hold it, it is tame. My hand warms it, only on the outside. I wan…
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Free At Last! [escape challenge]
I stared at the pocketknife in disbelief. The perfect tool for escape had fallen into my hands!
I skirted past the lifeless …
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Innocent Fun [apology challenge]
This is just to say
I have written
in crayon
all over your
bedroom walls
that which
you were probably
only finished p…
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They Don't Make A Card For This [Apology Challenge]
This is just to say I don’t know how you feel.
It’s always helpful to find someone who’s been there and can offer up some s…
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School Journal: Day 1 [OTOC's 303rd challenge]
Myself,
I hate having to keep a journal for English class. It’s stupid. And yes, I know the teacher is going to read this, a…
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Big Trouble, Big Lies [One More Word Challenge]
“Um.”
“Now what?”
“Well, we could…”
“Tried that already, dork.”
“How about tightening the thingy?”
“What good would th…
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Jenny's Taxi (Devon and Trazelli series)
She knew she was free. Her name was cleared. She felt pounds lighter, the birds sang cheerier, the sun shone brighter, and th…
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