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Murder in Her Eyes
by Terrie Leigh Relf
The girl stood by the roadside, her beautiful party dress covered with a boy’s dark jacket, a teddy bear held loosely before her. It was cold outside, almost brutally so, but she seemed comfortable, almost relaxed, despite the blood-stained gauze that partially covered her forehead and eyes. I stopped the car to ask if she needed help, whether I could give her a ride. She climbed into the passenger’s seat with a smile, said “thank you,” and we drove down the rural lane.
treasured moments
with a childhood friend
murdered decades ago
Fiction © Copyright Terrie Leigh Relf
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REALLY good one, Terrie! I love what you did with this prompt!
So darkly excellent. The last lines rocked.
So much told in so few words – masterful