The town looked dead, as everyone had gathered in the castle to celebrate our victory.
The war between zombies and humans had been going on for decades. The entire planet was under the rule of zombies, except Copper Country, which kept resisting with unprecedented bravery.
And then, just in the nick of time, we discovered that copper could ‘kill’ zombies.
Rejuvenated, we gathered all the copper in the kingdom in one place…
…and destroyed it.
The castle had not taken too long to fall once it ran out of copper.
We zombies now had complete control over the world.
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99 words.
This week’s story is a mashup of two separate challenges:
1.The Carrot Ranch Literary Community Flash Fiction Challenge, hosted by their lead buckaroo Charli Mills. The prompt this week was:
January 4, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about Copper Country. It can be any place, fictional, historical, or on another planet. Go where the copper leads.
2. The Sunday Photo Fiction challenge, hosted by Al Forbes. The objective was to write a story of 200 words or less based on the photo prompt given above. For more details visit HERE. To read more stories based on this week’s prompt, visit HERE.
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A very good play with POV… I didn’t see it coming 🙂
Thank you so much Anna.
Nice twist! You got me!
Thank you so much Deborah.
Well-done – you caught me out too.
Thank you so much.
You’re welcome.
I agree with the others; you lead us down one path and then at the end, took us somewhere unexpected. Good job!
Thank you so much Susan.
Nice twist! I guess they have to win sometime in at least one of these zombie stories!
Ha ha ha, thanks. Yes, they should, zombies are also humans after all.
I see what you did there. Got me. And copper does have such properties, effective against bacteria, mold, mildew, and zombies.
Ha ha ha. Thank you so much 🙂
I loved how you kept us in the dark as to who the narrator was. When the POV became clear it was a shock and a wonderful twist.
Thank you so much Irene. After all, zombies are people too 🙂
or maybe were people. 😄
I’m keeping copper in my arsenal, just in case. Great way to thwart our expectations.
Thank you so much Charli!
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Very cool and you’ve created a new type of zombie to compete with the mindless, rambling zombies we see all the time: a thinking and literate zombie. It might be time to be afraid 🙂 !
Ha ha ha. Thank you so much Michael
Great end twist, Anurag. Good writing. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thank you so much Suzanne.