The 3 Sentence Ficathon!! for WIP Wednesday please. Good luck with writing!
Your "good luck" must've been magic, because this is the longest ficlet I've written for the 3SF yet. (225 words!)
any, any, yelling at a gravestone
Tiger & Bunny, Gen, Seriously Maverick Is the Worst
Barnaby doesn’t intend to do it. He’s just finished visiting his parents, and on a spur-of-the-moment decision, he takes the long way back to his car so he can stop at Aunt Samantha’s grave and leave a flower for her.
But he turns too early—or too late—and as he’s scanning the unfamiliar markers looking for her name, they fall on one he’d hoped to never see again.
Seeing “Albert Maverick” is like a punch to the gut, and Barnaby freezes mid-step. He should keep walking, ignore it, go find Aunt Samantha’s grave.
Instead, he stops. And quite without his consent, the words start pouring out.
It starts off quiet, but by the end of it, he’s screaming, and he doesn’t stop until his throat is raw.
You took everything from me. You took everyone from me.
He fumbles his phone out of his pocket and dials without looking.
“Hey, Bunny!” Kotetsu’s voice is bright. “How are you?”
Barnaby can’t respond, but then again, it’s Kotetsu; he doesn’t need to.
“Bunny? Where are you?” Kotetsu asks, more serious now.
Barnaby nods, although Kotetsu can’t see it, and hangs up. Nothing can bring back what he’s lost, but Kotetsu reminds him of what he still has—the one person Maverick couldn’t take from him, despite his best efforts.