One of the blogs I now follow, thanks to the April A-Z Challenge, posts the Three Things Challenge. Here are the instructions:
Use your imagination and creativity using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family friendly.
Today’s words are: SHELTER, PLACE, HIDE
He was okay…for now. No one knew where he was, no one could hurt him. He could stay here forever. This was a safe spot, the one place where he could be himself and try to forget. Forget who he was, forget what they said about him, forget what they did to him.
The house had been closed up for years, boards in the windows, locks on the doors, but he found a way in from the basement. It was the perfect place to hide, a shelter from the reality of life. He drilled a little peephole in one board in the second floor bedroom and found he could see most of the neighborhood.
He watched them come and go, like little bugs scurrying around and he imagined the day when he was big and powerful enough to stomp them and grind them into the ground. For now all he could do was watch and plan but one day, one day, he would show them all. They wouldn’t laugh at him, pick on him, humiliate or beat him anymore. He would become the exterminator.
Love this………… one day, one day indeed. Great story Donna. Thanks for joining in.
Thanks, it was an old flash fiction piece and I updated it a bit. Fit the words so well.