Date of creation: 10/06/2024
Word count: 100
Author's note: This was my entry for round two, part two. The prompt was to write a drabble (exactly 100 words) containing the words "Neverland" and "crocodile."
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It's time for you to sleep and forget now.
The angel with slate gray hair and black-veined, wispy gray wings faded into darkness. I'd seen her before. I knew I had. But where? The memory danced just out of my grasp, as ephemeral as Wendy's Neverland.
Wendy...
Images appeared and blended and faded, traces of reality and dashes of fantasy. A cartoon crocodile chasing Captain Hook; melting snow and orange heat cubes; Frosty the snowman and a BTS music video; a wintry scene encased in a snow globe of ice...
She was in the snow globe. Her name was Wendy.
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