Welcome to The Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014! This year, I’m offering up a story – each one 100 words or fewer - for each letter of the alphabet.
Some are heartfelt, poignant, sweet. Others are…not.
I hope you enjoy them.
Xavier works the old Dudley house alone. The landscape crew sniggers, says its haunted. They give him the hardest jobs, the crappiest equipment. They’re just jealous - of his youth, his good looks.
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WHAT'S EATING XAVIER?
Xavier works the old Dudley house alone. The landscape crew sniggers, says its haunted. They give him the hardest jobs, the crappiest equipment. They’re just jealous - of his youth, his good looks.
He’s daydreaming of being rich, famous when the mower rams
into the house’s foundation. The machine judders, its gears gnashing. The motor
burns hot then dies a cold death.
Xavier curses. He finds the hole - a small, dry mouth edged
with soft, crumbling teeth. He can hide it, no problem. He smiles.
Until something inside the hole unfurls its tongue and licks
him.
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