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Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

Coo de’tat
by Amanda Worthington

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The tree blurs until it is amorphous

Green and gold with shadow cutting through

The bag of bread lays on the bench beside him –

Forgotten.

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His mind struggles to gain purchase on reality

But it is slippery; he cannot hold onto it

And his vision is fading.

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The bird is enormous

And looks hungry….

And…

The thing that once cooed complacently

Regards the bread and then the man

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Whose eyes are little more than slits,

Pierces flesh with beak

Feeds slowly, toxin dripping

Hears his prey scream on the inside

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No one notices.

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Fiction © Copyright Amanda Worthington.
Image courtesy of Pixabay

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