The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: FLAT. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active on Wed night) The Café is open. Come as you are!
Wreaths of coffee aroma played about her smile, tightening the contour of curls that framed the family countenance passed down from generation to generation.
No matter what continent that family resemblance landed on, the inherited ability to see and draw the uncanny followed, in midnight blue eyes, high cheekbones and a heart-shaped face, teeth a little too sharp for most humans’ comfort.
Shadowed, she stood inside the cabin, a cool morning breeze blowing through the screen door, and watched the little man until the dense ferns just beyond the gravel lot ceased twitching. Best not to frighten him too early (there would be time for that later); it was enough that he’d taken the bait, the wedges of oranges that both their kind adored.
Laughing softly as the screen door’s spring screeched, she pushed through and padded barefoot across the cold, flat-gray painted cement floor toward the porch couch where her book lay waiting to be taken up again.
Coffee burned her lips in wicked delight as she sipped without cooling it, and she let the door swing free and snap shut with a gunshot bang; beyond, the ferns shivered, then froze.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)
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Valley of the Trolls 
Ha! I knew I couldn’t read this week’s (8/28/25) Six without reading the ones I missed! 😆
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😊 Yay!!
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And the plot thickens! Cue ominous music with that soft laugh (even at the risk of making it scarier than it already is).
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I am starting to feel sorry for the gnome.
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getting the vampire vibes…
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Those sharp teeth would make me nervous…..
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Heh heh heh…😉
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Love it. Waiting patiently for next week!
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:-)
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Those sharp teeth make me wonder if he should have taken the bait.
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Time will/may reveal all?
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Hmm, ‘teeth a little too sharp’ – I also think it must be at least one vampire in the mix. Maybe I’m right? Do tell me next week…
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Slowly unfolding…not sure just yet. I’m a pantser with this one!😄
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Oh yes, I’m also a pantser through and through, although I call myself a ‘braccaneer’.😉
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Okay, I’ll bite. Great bloomers!
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Now- I went back and reread what you posted last week and I think I have myself confused- last week i thought he was a gnome- and this week he sounds more like a vampire- am I even warm?
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He’s a gnome, hiding in the ferns (read part 1?). She’s…somethin’ else! May our next SSS prompt lend a clue or two. ;-)
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I go tthe gnome part- at least I thought I did- now I am gonna have to go back and see what you are referencing……
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Or you cn wait for the next one…sometimes the story is revealed (to me) over time.
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Oh dear, what is she going to do to that poor gnome?
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(heh heh heh…)
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