Sphere of Being
#100StoryChallenge — No43
Don’t look too close. She’ll gobble you up.
Oh, you haven’t seen her? We call her Candy. It’s that pink cage of hers. You can’t miss it.
But she tries to tell us she’s a nice witch. We don’t believe her, of course. When have you ever heard of a good witch in this part of the woods?
Hansel and Gretel thought they knew better. Wrong, of course. Poor little lambs, getting shoved into an oven like that. Where was their mother when that happened?
You might be able to feed Candy. She likes apricots.
Children aren’t on the menu.
This is a part of my endeavor to go back to writing tighter fiction with more stringent word counts. It’s just one attempt at the 100 Story Challenge because I thought it would be a good exercise to do to keep my imagination sharp. We’ll see how it goes.
For longer fiction, you may enjoy my stories linked below:
