Bewitched Books
A bell jingled above the door announcing my entrance. I paused with my feet on a well-worn mat. Dim slices of light cut through the dust caked front window as coloured patches of light danced in through the stained glass behind me. In front of me were hundreds of bookshelves fit into more space than should be inside this narrow building. The shelves held strange looking books and bizarre looking items. One book caught my eye because it was more dusty then the others. It happened as I moved toward it. It moved! It shouldn’t have moved, but it did.
By Shari Marshall – April 2, 2018
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Prompt for this 100 word post is from 101 Writing Prompts, prompt #90.
Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils 
Writing in 100 words is tricky but you have conjured an image in my mind. I’m wondering what next?
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Good, I am glad that I caught your interest.
I like the 100 word challenge because I feel like it helps my editing, haha. I usually have to pare down what I wrote to get a tighter piece and one that fits the 100 word limit.
Thanks for reading.
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Fascinating piece! I love 100 word flash fiction and it was my theme for the last two A to Z challenges too. I now want to know what happened to the reader/writer 🙂
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Glad you are hooked into the story.
Flash fiction really can be a lot of fun. Thanks for stopping in.
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Ooo, can’t wait to see why it moved!
Jayden R. Vincente
Erotic Fiction Writer
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Yikes, I think that there is a distraction that happens so I can’t say if we get an explanation for the movement…
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A rat? That would scare me more than something sinister.
B is for Boss
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A rat, haha, let’s hope not but I can see how that would be scary.
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Wow i love how every post is only a 100 words. It is going to be exciting reading your posts. I absolutely love your theme!!
Cheers,
Dream
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Thank you. As for the 100 word posts part of my goal for A to Z this year was to keep my posts short and easy to read, and I am happy to have some feedback in regards to that choice. Glad that you stopped by!
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I love this, all kinds of possibilities with an opening like that, well done!
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The possibilities are kind of fun, but because I am limiting myself to 100 words I can’t explore them all. I’m hoping that works out okay for the readers…
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It works for me! 😉
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Interesting, how could you tell that one book was more dusty than other books, especially if the windows to the store were dirty?
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Perhaps the dim light coming in from the dusty windows and the stained glass in the door cast a bit more light into one section of a shelf and the dust book was highlighted.
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Makes sense 🙂
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Creepy! Not easy to create a creepy atmosphere in only 100 words!
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Thank you.
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Some dark magic happening in the bookstore. Nicely done.
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