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[shes-some-other-where]

Swallowed by the dark

Prompt: "Get back in there."

Contains: prison/labour camp, threat (implied)

His chest heaved. Up, down, in, out, each inhale a dagger, each exhale a rasp. The guards lifted their clubs. The chief overseer gripped the blade at his side.

“Get back in there,” said the chief overseer, his eyes narrowed. “Who told you you could stop?”

He stared down at his hands, blackened and bloodied from hours of labour. The gaping maw of the mine lay behind him. Ravenous. Dark.

The chief overseer stepped forward, eyes flashing in the sun. “Don’t make me order you again.”

The clanking of his fettered ankles followed as he retreated, swallowed by the dark.

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[shes-some-other-where]

Retribution well-deserved

Prompt: Cliff

Contains: heights (almost falling from a cliff), death mention

Let him drop.

The prisoner heard the panicked voice of the soldier shouting. The terror-slicked cries mingled with another voice—a darker one, steeped in malice. Hatred. Bitter, wolfish hunger for retribution well-deserved. Let the bastard fall and die.

Some long-suppressed, now-unfamiliar compulsion had him reaching. Straining. Pulling the soldier back to solid ground.

Saving him from the fatal drop over the cliff’s sheer edge.

Why? He didn’t know. After five years, he bore enough scars on his skin and his soul to justify letting his jailer splatter on the ground below.

I think you might be a good man.

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“What were you thinking?”

Prompt: Breathless

Contains: nothing of note, he's just still shoved against the wall

She was shouting when she made it down the stairs, more out of breath than he’d ever seen her.  “Just stop and listen to me! I let him in! I invited him!”

“Why?” Her brother didn’t release his grip. “A strange man in our cellar, and you alone with him here? What were you thinking? What will people say?”

Strange man. Not fugitive. Not criminal.

He didn’t know.

“They will say nothing,” she said, “because no one else knows. And I’ve been perfectly safe. This man needed shelter, and I gave it. That’s all. You have nothing to worry about.”

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