Blood Sacrifice
Beaver Springs was vernacular in every sense. Every detail focused on making the homes of this community intuitively functional, yet unmemorable. An architectural achievement rarely seen in cookie-cutter neighbourhoods.
Despite its utilitarian appeal, there was something deeper, sinister at play. The residents congregated at nightfall, like lions, tense as they waited. Their prey, almost always a woman, plucked from the dirty forgotten streets across town.
When she was too weak to fight back, the sun fixing to rise in the east, they would share in a communion of blood sacrifice.
Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt #263.
Prompt Word: Vernacular | Word Count: 90
Date: 2022-06-11 | Tags: #weekendwritingprompt
Fandango’s One Word Challenge.
Prompt Word: Tense.
Date: 2022-06-11 | Tags: #fowc
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That’s a little scary. Oh, I don’t mean the blood sacrifice. I mean the row of identical houses all lined up so close together.
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Yeah, when I see those neighbourhoods I always assume something sinister has to be going on there!!!
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Note to self: avoid anyplace named Beaver Springs. I find cookie cutter homes and neighborhoods like this kind of weird but I understand why people are comfortable living in them.
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I shall not be going there. Blood is so icky. 🙂
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I was thinking of moving there, thanks for the warning!
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Ha ha ha!
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Goodness me, Greg, that took a dark turn very quickly! It’s a great intro to the beginning of an urban horror. I could really see it unfolding that way, well done 🙂
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It did turn dark very quick. I often wonder what really goes on in cookie-cutter neighbourhoods. I always assume the worst!
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Ha ha ha! I’m sure you’re right in some cases 😀 I love the expression “cookie cutter neighbourhoods” by the way. It already has an edge of sinister about it 🙂
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Blimey, that was unexpectedly disturbing!
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