Mar 14, 2016 Original Flash Fiction, Original Short Story

Paper Revenge – Fantasy Flash Fiction
©March 14th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

It was time to enter the world of the three-dimensional.

Stepping out into traffic, Papyra stood, her arms above her head.

The traffic screeched to a halt, but one car sailed through her.
Papyra walked on, naked and calm, to the other side.

On the street lay a pile of clothes, and a cardboard cutout of a woman.

The man who’d hit her jumped out of his car, while others, who had stopped as well, followed suit.

“What the hell was that?” asked a man, his face as white as a sheet.

“Dunno.  Whatever it is, it’s GOT to be some kind of joke!” said another. 

When two of them picked up the cardboard cutout, a curious change came over them, and they fell over, flat and colorless.  A wind eddied up under them, and blew them into the clouds.

Another wind swirled up Papyra’s clothes, and brought them to her, as she watched from the shoulder of the road.  Impassively, she shrugged them on, and, without a backward glance, walked into the woods nearby.

Cell-phone cameras clicked as she went, even as the people who took the pictures backed away from the scene of the hit-but-not-run.

When they looked at the pictures they’d taken, all they saw was a pile of drifting paper floating away.

The woman went into the woods, and embraced a tree, her tears like somebody shredding away at an eight-and-a-half-by-eleven.  The tree shed some leaves, and she nodded. 

Then, she went back into the street.

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Tags: #Trees, Paper, Weird Nature Fantasy Story