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Back in her cubbyhole

Chris Hall47 Comments

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The red-head woman climbed up the rickety stairs to the top level of her tiny flat, as she lugged her big bag which contained all those interesting things, which she had brought from that antique safe in that old almost empty building.

Earlier she still could hardly believe what had happened just by the spooky cemetery around the corner; one of the graves had exploded, as a chasm appeared, for several minutes it was chaos, but then the chasm had closed and the large grave looked just the same as before.

She had been about to go back down from the roof, when she saw the two gargoyles flying away; she felt rather sad to see them go and she wondered if she would see them again, but then she heard one of them shout back to her – see you later!

She shook her head for a moment, but now she was busy again; she had removed everything from her bag and spread them around her bed; there was an old beautiful book, various important documents and nestling in the little box – a ring – she quickly put on her finger, it was set in a lovely ruby, maybe an engagement ring, she’d thought?

She looked at the deeds that were very difficult to read, she scrolled down – French was not her first language – but she could tell that this was something about the old building where the gargoyles stay.

Now there is a thought – do gargoyles read?

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Denise Farley of GirlieOnTheEdge
Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt: ENGAGEMENT

47 thoughts on “Back in her cubbyhole”

  8. The “see you later” made it clear that the gargoyles knew she was there. I am glad the chasm shut itself up. That would have been a mess to clean. I get an ominous feeling about hearing that she put the ring on her finger.

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  13. My kind of Six!

    (interesting settings, usually-forbidden beings offering a positive relationship and a welcome for new adventures)

    In grad school I lived in a 3rd floor tenement apartment. One advantage to the old-fashioned semi-curved staircase, as long as I leaned on the left-hand wall, I always made it home)

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    • Glad you enjoyed that, Clark!

      And yes, I also lived in my first year in the Varsity place in an old and tall building on the 3rd floor. I remember there was 62 stairs, coming down was much easier than going up – even then!

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