"You shouldn't of come here, lady."
Her beau detaches himself and she stumbles to try and snatch him back, snapping her heel and getting nothing in return.
He closes the group's loose circle around her.
"Oh come now," she pouts and flicks her wrist at them while pulling her jewel-encrusted purse to her front. "How about you let me go?" She dangles a diamond necklace in front of them - borrowed from her mother, but she'd never miss it.
Her ex-beau sneers. "See, I told you she'd try and buy her way out."
A man grimaces, stepping toward her. "That diamond won't fix this." He motions to the ramshackle buildings leering down at them. "And it won't help you or your kind. Not anymore."
YOU ARE READING
The Eternal Return
Short StoryA collection of speculative short stories and flash fiction. A few of these are also posted on my blog and others still I wrote in creative writing classes or for flash fiction contests. Please, let me know what you think.
