Apr 28, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © Mary Shipman
Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Fairy tale? Demon-Tale! (Alas, I seem to not have much realistic fiction left in me – I’ll give it another try!)

Shopping Trap
©April 28th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

It was a curious shop.  Rolling pins, lamps and chemises hung down.  At the far end, wearing a long, dirty nightgown, sat a man, with wispy white hair on his head.  His teeth were yellow-stained, his fingernails dirty.

As far as Nina knew, he’d never sold anything.  Day after day, she passed his shop; the same things hung down, or sat on the shelf.

Passing one day, she looked straight into his eyes.

His returned gaze rattled her.  Despite herself, she entered.

In seconds, the shop, the man, and Nina vanished, before the mournful words, “Another one gone” echoed everywhere.

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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother Extraordinaire for hosting Friday Fictioneers, where we get to meet and mingle with some of the finest story-tellers in the blogging world.  Thanks, as well, to Mary Shipman for that photo-prompt!

Tags: #Fantasy-FairyTale-Mystery, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt, #Shopping