What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie McFerrin posts a one word inspiration, and then anyone wishing to participate writes a five sentence story based on the prompt word.
This weeks word is Human.
I crept through the shadows, moving as slowly as possible,
not sure I had really smelled the scent.
But there again, a wisp came to my nose, a spicy earthy sent
that I hadn’t smelt for years.
Cautiously I peered around a corner and finally caught sight
of my prey.
Slipping along the path in front of me was a creature that
was almost a legend here.
A human!
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Now I have to admit that sometimes I find it hard to keep a
story to five sentences, so sometimes I will let my imagination run wild.
* * * *
A human here! Heart thundering I ducked back before it could
see me. But how had it come to be here? Ever since the Sundering my world had
been free of the creatures. Free of the taint that they had brought to our worlds
magick, free of their destructive ways.
Destroying the great forests as they cut the trees for
buildings, digging huge holes in the landscape, mining for precious ores and
metals. Those that had the gift could feel the earth as it screamed and finally
they did something. All of those that had magick had used this to separate the
world of humans from the world of the people.
Since then we had thrived, mostly peacefully, but thrive we
had. And our world had regained that that it had lost. But now there was a
human wandering the city, my city.
This could only be bad.
Afraid to let it out of my sight but knowing that I needed
to give a warning I gathered my courage together. Peering once more around the
corner I realised that in my moment of shock I had lost it. Cursing I ran.
