I stared.
“Wow. That house is small. And old … and ugly,” my friend said.
I swallowed.
“Are you ready?”
I shivered.
We walked up the stairs and across the porch, being careful to avoid the rotting planks.
The door creaked as we pushed it open.
I heard rustling from deep within the bowels of the dark house.
“Rats,” my buddy whispered.
I shuddered.
My buddy walked through the door. “Ready?”
I whimpered.
My tormentor grabbed my shirt and yanked me forward; I tripped over my feet.
The chair dominated the small room.
“Weird,” said my friend. “Why does that chair have barbed wire?”
I fainted.
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Unusual chair. But fact can be stranger than fiction.
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Wow, powerful and well written. Sometimes the past isn’t as bad as we remember, but sometimes it can be worse.
Wow, Karen, where in the world did you find that chair!
A nice scary story ending with this horrible chair! 🙂
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The shame chair…. Wonder where I could get one of those? I work with juvenile offenders who could (possibly) be intimidated by something like that..tee-hee. I enjoyed reading your take on this week’s prompt.
Yikes! And my kids thought “time out” was bad!!!!
Oh my ouchy! I hope that isn’t a chair from someone’s world! But that house just rocks for me….oh I’d love to have something like that and just get out the paint…and well probably a few nails or a new board here or…but the potential! it’s lovely!
@Claudia – ha! No. He was the CFO of a finance company. Yeah … I know … go figure, lol.
Very well done and unique! But I wonder about that chair, was your husband a junior high principal?
oh, don’t leave us hanging…great writing. love the images.
Fun! Chuckled at the chair, love the pic of the old house-such character:@)
Believe it or not, that was a real chair in my husband’s office once upon a time….
Ouch that is a painful looking chair! Perfect for this Centus too!~Ames
Good writing! And good illustrations, too.
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