
There’s a glow. Call it a radiance, if you like. Whatever the description of choice, this spot’s different. Elsa insists this is where the fae folk meet, but Hank scoffs and explains space-time anomaly.
I just sense this as the place where you live. Yes, I know ours is a forbidden love, and yes, I know they’ll call me crazy. But I feel you slide in to take possession of my body. A haunting, perhaps, but one I’ve come to crave.
To yield control is such pleasure. Less so, maybe, for Elsa as my hands close round her throat.
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here

I really like the line “A haunting, perhaps, but one I’ve come to crave.”
Nicely done.
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Thanks so much
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Dear Neil,
Creepy in a delightfully ethereal way.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks so much, Rochelle
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Something seductively sinister towards the end. Poor Elsa.
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Nobody really liked Elsa. She had a tendency to bossiness
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Seductively sinister is a lovely way to put it
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One cannot consume without first killing. Elsa, you have served your delicious purpose.
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That’s mighty understanding of you, Dale
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I try to be 😉
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Uh oh.
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Yup
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Well, I wasn’t expecting that! Of course, as I went back and read it again, I should have been expecting that 🙂
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I don’t think Elsa was either
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Oh my, Neil, that last line was a doozy! I bet it happens just like that sometimes.
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Just like that. Out of the blue
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I would go quite that far 😉
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You just never know how people will react to fairy experiences.
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Some more extremely than others
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Not his fault, the fae made him do it.
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That is understanding of you
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Oooooo I love this Neil.
I’m hooked and want more!
So creepy and mysterious. Alien entity or fae, either way poor Elsa
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Thanks so much, Laurie. You’re the Alien creepiness queen, but I couldn’t resist the picture
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🤣
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Bad fairy! Bad! Down boy.
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Thanks for reading, Russell
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this needs a sequel…what happens next?
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Thanks for reading, Nandini
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Sounds like dear Elsa took the trad wife thing all the way to tragedy. Excellent write, Neil.
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Thanks so much, Violet
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Great line about the haunting he’s come to crave! Creepy, seductive, sinister…a gripping story.
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Thanks so much, Angela
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i suppose it was time for him to rise to the occasion.
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And rise he did
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Poor dear Elsa, the latest victim of your long list of people who the entertain us with their doing of the absolutely bad stuff.
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Elsa was proud to play her part
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Sometimes you just wanna strangle people like Elsa! Pfft!
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That’s very understanding of you, Nancy. Thank you
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Hell hath no fury like jealous fae folk.
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True that
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’seductively sinister’ is right! It went from sensual to sinister in a beat! Nicely done.
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Thanks so much
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