Aug 6, 2015 Friday Fictioneers

Genre:  Myth-fantasy

Word-Count:  100 words (text)

Laurel and the Night-Terrors

© August 6th, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

A throttled moon shone from between strangling branches.  A vast, bat-shaped creature flew around and around overhead. Underneath her body, creepers snaked out of the ground and wound themselves lovingly around her arms.

Daphne gazed skywards, desperate, ready to shout out the name of her pursuer, her lust-maddened god.

The moon shone down, and a pale warning beamed her way — Do not fear the night.

Daphne took a deep breath, shuddered once, let her body lie limp, and fell asleep.

At daybreak, a beautiful laurel tree stood quietly in the sunlight, where her night-dream-self had lain.

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Thanks, as always to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for her inspiration, gracious hosting of Friday Fictioneers and loving support to all of us, and to Madison Woods, for her beautiful photograph-prompt.

Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, Fantasy, Greek Mythology