Jeanie Writes Genre

I've decided to challenge myself to write a ficlet a day, in addition to working on the novel, just to exercise my imagination muscles and build my short story skills (which are lacking. I can do drabbles & flash fics, and I can do novels and novellas, but I can't seem to do anything in between. Or at least do them well).

Today's ficlet was inspired by this picture. If it happens to inspire YOU, dear reader, you can write a prequel or sequel to it here. You can also find my tiny handful of '07 ficlets here.

And here's today's ficlet:

Fairytale Ending


They arrived at sunset. It was beautiful-breathtaking, really-like something out of a fairytale. The Disney versions, even. But Jensen knew that this story was closer to the ones handed down before the Grimm brothers got hold of them and gave them a good polish.

Her grandfather had made sure she knew those version. He’d wanted her to be tough, not under any illusions.

She thought of the girls who had been brought here, one at a time, and wondered what illusions had filled their imaginations as they first laid eyes on this place, with its Happily Ever After facade. They must have thought they were entering a romance novel. Horror and True Crime was surely the farthest things from their minds.

At least until their boats docked.

As the boat pulled closer, Jensen flashed her badge at the uniform on the pier and donned her scuba mask. Time to bring up the bodies.

©2007-2008 by JM Bauhaus

Labels: ficlets, short fiction