Member-only story
RANDOM | VIGNETTE | FICTION
She Steps Into Paradise and Turns It All Into Dust
The Vignette Gazette Edition #279 | Resplendent
(Non-Medium members can read it for free here.)
A patch of pink foxgloves swayed and danced in the breeze. The purple lavenders bowed their heads. Clusters of blue hydrangeas hummed. A bed of pink, peach, and yellow roses laughed.
They invigorated until she arrived. The foxgloves shrieked and shrank. The lavenders stiffened their stems. The hydrangeas gasped in horror. The roses cringed.
She strolled through the vine-covered arbor. A dark mist followed her footsteps.
As she walked across the garden, shrills wailed through the sea of flowers. The flowers shriveled and withered, turning into brittle, old parchments.
The garden was no longer resplendent. She was called “Tumor”.
Read the daily word challenges and other brilliant vignettes in fiction shorts.
