Fox Tales – Week #33 – @vermillionfox

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From @vermillionfox’s writing contest. For more information please see the link:
https://steemit.com/contest/@vermillionfox/fox-tales-wk-33-announcing-contest-winners-and-a-new-story-image

My Entry:

Just a cigarette and a blindfold, that’s what she’d told herself, now in that place she’d often thought of in her moments of freedom. The motivation, to savor the moment after years of hard fought battles, because now the moment drew near and would become a memory soon. A memory, like the memory of her life, a never ending nightmare that she hoped would end soon. This moment, the turning point after years of abuse with her tormentor now tied to the wall in front of her. His mouth gagged, his eyes wide, and his fear radiating across the room to where she took the last drag from her cigarette. She put it out, and reached for the blindfold. Her fingers grasped the sleek silk ends. No one would see this performance, his last performance, she’d be sure to make it that no matter the depths she might need to go to bring an end to it all. Even in this psychopathic moment it would feel like cheating if the daggers she threw did not strike true to kill him. After all, her break from reality manifested from the stress of having daggers thrown at her for a living. It might be one of the easiest jobs in the circus, to be a pretty woman that gets tied up and spun around on a human sized dart board. Only the threat of your life being taken away from you drove your soul into desperation. And now that desperation had taken control of her actions to retaliate with action. She saved him the degradation of the wheel by tying him to the wall she told herself tying the knot in the silk blindfold that now blocked her vision. Then she began feeling for the first dagger . . .

Thank you,
Cyrus Emerson

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Lost Angel – Introduction with Ray Manzarek of The Doors
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Red Roses - audiobook
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