Friday, 28 February 2014

FLASH FICTION FRIDAY: The Snowman, by Dan Metcalf

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The bleak bare trees stared back from a white sky, the frozen faces of snowmen petrified by the frost of the previous night. Coal eyes look out pitifully.
            Children approach warily, their welly boots scrunching through the white wastes.
            “Is he looking at us?” said the first boy, head shaven and goose pimpled. He pointed at the largest snowman, a crooked carrot for a nose.
            “What if I am?”


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