The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!
You Deserve the Best
by Angela Yuriko Smith
A Public Service Announcement:
Witches don’t need cauldrons.
Black and brooms not required.
No cat under a full moon, no cackle
no eye of newt, no wart of toad.
No mandrake root. We like to be
incognito. Beware whom you vex.
It only takes intent and a modicum
of energy spent to cast just desserts
on the deserving. As for desserts
here is yours, my pleasure serving.
Today’s Special:
Dry pastry to catch your breath and
muffle your screams. Packing your
throat like sawdust, robbing saliva.
Cake got your tongue?
Wash it down with this, salty with
the tears you will weep. Bitter
from the company you keep. Sour
apple tea to curdle your dreams. Sweet
vengeance served savory…
your suffering wrapped in filo and
topped with cinnamon and crumb.
Yum!
Only the best for you.
Revenge is best served on good china.
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Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.
More from Angela Yuriko Smith:
Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.
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A wonderful poem.
Thank you Anita 🧡