Photo Credit – Copyright 2012 – Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw
New flash fiction over at
http://phlambler.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-prediction-changing-times.html
Rules – 100 words max flash fiction or poetry using the following words – rabbit, clamp, languish. Deadline is 9pm UK time on Thursday 27 September 2012.
FEEDING MOTHER
By Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw
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From tattered, filthy garments… miasma of her diseased body exudes… dried blood and remnants of past meals a diorama on corpulent, greyish-pink breasts more exposed than concealed.
Scabrous-nailed… greasy fingers clamp ‘round the furred creature’s quivering limbs.
Rabbit… its tiny, beating heart… terror echoes across the dank bedchamber.
“Wouldst thou have me languish from hunger, Monsieur Lapin?” Rotting, half-toothed maw gapes… grinning evil.
Blood-curdling squeals of the dying creature… sound of bones snapping… muscle and sinew tearing as the bitch-mother… sadistic vivisector… separates limbs from torso… freshets of blood spraying the soiled bedclothes.
Crimson drips… gristle hangs from lips…
Sated.
~ finis ~
© 2012 – Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw. All Rights Reserved.
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About VeronicaThePajamaThief
Bio: Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw
Born in Lisboa, Portugal to parents of Portuguese/Russian descent, Veronica Marie and her partner of six and a half years, Christina Anne, celebrated their second wedding anniversary in October 2012. The couple are “still very much on honeymoon!”
Part time teacher/barista/student, Veronica’s long fascination with noir fiction prompted her to try her own hand at writing fiction – “the last two years have been a roller coaster!”, where she honed her ‘writing chops’ on an unsuspecting public over at Flash Fiction Friday and Phil Ambler's (formerly Lily Childs’) Friday Prediction.
Veronica has been published in Pulp Metal Magazine, The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology, the horror anthology 100 Horrors, from Cruentus Libri Press, and the inaugural issue of Literary Orphans magazine. She also appears in Katherine Tomlinson's anthology, NIGHTFALLS: Notes from the end of the world, Paul D. Brazill’s DRUNK ON THE MOON 2: A Roman Dalton Anthology and Near To The Knuckle's debut anthology - Gloves Off.
Veronica counts among her mentors - Carole A Parker, Lily Childs, Paul D Brazill, Richard Godwin and Joyce Juzwik. She is currently ‘polishing’ her first novel – a memoir – and working on the second draft of a second novel, as well as publishing a collection of her flash fiction and short stories.
Veronica’s writings can also be found at http://veronicathepajamathief.blogspot.com and http://veronicathepajamathiefwritespoetry.blogspot.com.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology (Kindle)
Totally creepy and well described. I love it!
Thank you, Susie. I kind of surprised myself with that one… how quickly it came.