Drabble Wednesday: Cold Revenge

Today on Drabble Wednesday, I serve up a dish best served cold… Revenge.

Country of Shadows

In the darkness I fume, in the blackness I scheme... mine enemies best beware. Revenge is best served bloody.

I still feel their sharp blades, cutting, cutting, draining my blood, my life. They left me to stain the marble and die. I saw their looming shadows as I took my last breath.

Death did not finish me, though.

I yet exist.

Somewhere between, in this eternal night.

Somewhere in the shadows of what I once called home.

I see them. I will haunt them.

I will ruin them.

Then I will see their blood run free to stain the marble.

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Absinthe in the Rain

I stand on a Paris street in the rain.

I can hear the soft strains of happy laughter, and faint music from the Moulin Rouge.

I am waiting.

He will come to me this time.

It has been a year since he abandoned me, abandoned our grand plan. But I did not give up. I succeeded. Now he will be the fool, as he once called me.

He walks up the road. He sees me in under the street light. My men shoot him dead.

I watch his body fall, the bottle of absinthe he held smashing on the cobblestones.

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Dollhouse of Death

“Stop squirming.”

But the miniature man keeps wriggling, so I squeeze, just a bit, to make my point. I hear a tiny crack, and a small high pitched scream.

Oh dear, I’ve broken him. No matter, he’ll be dead soon.

I shrug and place him in the doll house, on the small braided rug. He cradles his arm and moans.

The two others stay huddled in the corner. I think they’re still in shock from my spell. And yesterday’s killing. I did a public execution with a working guillotine.

Their own fault, really. They should not have double-crossed a witch.

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