Friday 13th Flash 55

The Death Card is nothing to fear. It only indicates change, the 'death' of a phase or an aspect of life. But she'd pulled it first in every client's reading today--all thirteen of them.

No matter.

Right?

She hurried homeward, too worried to think of anything else, even people, even traffic, even crossing 13th Street.

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That was a 55-word story for Friday Flash 55. To join in the fun, write any story you like in 55-words (no more, no less) then tell Mr. Knowitall by leaving a comment on his own Flash-55 post today. You'll also find a whole collection of links to fantastic 55-word stories to read.

If you like the card, that's from the The Gothic Tarot by James Vargo, and yes, "Death" really is number 13 in the major arcana.

If you like to write:

Flash Fiction Offensive wants "the kind of stories you tell when you're with your pals down at the bar, knocking back your thirteenth beer. Tales about things that went wrong when Joe Asshole punched his woman a little too hard, about the stranger Crack-whore Jenny met on the streets that she wants to forget, about the time when Loser Steve should have gotten arrested but didn't."
Dang. I need to work up to thirteen beers it seems.

Thirteen Myna Birds "is an online poetry publication seeking the evocative, the connotative, the creepy, the odd, the paranormal, and the dark... Thirteen Myna birds will consist of 13 pieces at any given time. Our favorite kind of pieces are poems, but we are also in favor of other poetic blurbs and blurts and brambles and darts and snippets such as dreamscapes and petite fictions and the hybridized innards of pomosexual beasts..."
Hey. Who you calling pomosexual??


HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH EVERYONE!!
Now be careful out there...

The pedestrian fatality photograph comes from the NY Daily News.