A Month of Mini Writing Challenges 2017
You’re on your way to work and a new, strange-looking shop has opened overnight. You are drawn to it and go in but what – or who – is inside? Tell us in less than 100 words.
A blood-red painted shop with a signboard in white ‘KILLING IS FUN, JOIN IN’ was strange enough for me to enter the shop. It was full of various kinds of Mannequins.
The receptionist, with a counter full of knives, invited,’ choose any knife, put the face of the one you want to kill on any mannequin and stab as much you like, you’ll feel light-hearted.’
My obvious choice was my rude boss.
I stabbed it to my heart’s content.
Delighted, I turned and noticed my boss entering the shop.
His face was still intact on the mannequin.
(98 words)