The caption was Scraping back skin.
The picture:
The picture:
and my story...
‘‘Matriarch’’
Sam Coleman
150 words.
@indigo_sam
The old house squats betwixt the pines, her dust covered windows concealing within like eyes milky with cataracts.
The furniture was covered in plastic as I started to scrape back her skin. A cream coloured layer with a brown interweaving pattern came first, it matched the furniture. Next a royal blue pattern against white. The bright astronaut decoration of a child’s room gave way to a foul mustard coloured floral pattern. Again and again I peeled back her coloured chameleon flesh and as I did I pulled back the veil from her past until I stripped her down to her archaic wooden bones. A large brown stain spotted the wall, that familiar iron pungency, almost sweet. The horror welled up within me and broke into screams as the sea breaks upon the shore and I knew then, I was looking upon her face.
The old house squats betwixt the pines.
My short story submission for the
55th #SatSunTails #Microfiction #Competition!
Linked here.
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