Dinner Talk

“You’re spoiling me rotten,” she told him. Then she and her zombie mate exchanged smiles and began eating his latest kill.

©2011, Guy Belleranti

(sigh)

She said she had a surprise. I closed my eyes. Then I heard it mewing from the inside the box. I sighed. I hate cats.

©2011, Lau Lioi

Harsh Heritage

Dropped cake spoils her party dress. Her mum won’t wipe it, nor heed her tears. “Let her learn disappointment,” she says, lost in a memory.

©2011, Gayle Beveridge

Spoiler

‘You spoil ‘er rotten, that girl. She needs discipline. I had it, look how I turned out.’ Pam didn’t reply. That was what she was afraid of.

©2011, Simon Kewin

Not What He Bargained On

He thrashed his brother for his lollies; the spoils of war. Hiding in his room he gulped them all, the resultant stomach ache, a spoiler.

©2011, Gayle Beveridge