Eye of the storm

If I could take you back to the day before our chance meeting, I would have done that in a heartbeat. I would have packed my bags and left for higher grounds before you caught me in such a vulnerable state. But you lulled me in with your promise of a once in a lifetime adventure and your ability to sustain your strength for hours nearly knocked me off my feet. You gave new meaning to a bad hair day and the sea foam around my feet looked like a hundred adoring cats meowing for a little kibble. Sandy, you seduced me and I went along with your plans because no magic potion in the world could have saved me from your wrath.

Five Sentence Fiction word for this week is: potion

Faeries in my closet

I remember my tiny fingers going numb while I single handedly dug down to the roots of those magnificent oak trees in Ally Pond Park. You told me the faeries would protect me from things that went bump in the night and every night something scared me wide awake, so much so that my eyes became the proud owner of the dark bags of a girl twice my age.

I remember dancing with them as only I could and you never stopped me from believing that their gentle wings would tickle me to sleep.

Did it all change because I was not cute enough anymore? All I know is that the first time you hit me, my faerie wings exploded into dust and I was all alone in the dark again.

Five Sentence Fiction word for the week of October 5,2012: Faeries