Fear of discovery. A potent motivator for Kat to stay hidden under cover of darkness. She sensed the approaching humans, their searchlights glowing orange, coming dangerously close now.
Wishing she'd listened to her mother about staying on earth too long, she folded her luminous white angel wings about her. Shivering in the tree top, she felt trapped.
Hoping to remain undetected until sunrise, she nestled deeper into the dense branches, suddenly longing for the comfort of her mother's famous chocolate pudding.
The helicopter's infrared beam locked onto her shape. Loud, excited voices drifted up from below, "Catch it alive!"
Word count - 99
Copyright 2009 - Written by Rose H. in response to this weeks prompts from the Genre Shorties Group.
A SciFi story of 100 words or less using at least two of the following words: glowing, darkness, fear, pudding, orange.
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Comments: 21
Well done Rose.
This is wonderful Rose. I can picture her shivering in the treetops.
amazing what you can do with 99 words, rose...very good!
Lovely.
This is a good one!!!!!!
oooo I like it!
Verrry nice -- a teaser for a long work, even!
Well done! So hard to write something in so few words, isn't it?
Why must we always Catch It?
Great little story...I hope she has the ability to disappear or reflect light and make it look as if she's gone...
That is a really neat premise..I loved the humor thrown in to temper the building anxiety with the chocolate pudding statement..
well done.... :)
Ooh, such tension and fear of discovery in this one.
There could be a second part and a third.
This leaves it wide open. So cool!!
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
It leaves you wanting more!
How very human of us. Hope she escapes them.
I love how descriptive you were, made it so very real. Well done, Rose.
THANK YOU ALL - what wonderful responses to wake up to this morning.
You made my day!
I love this Rose, such great imagination, I could see the whole thing.
the last line made me shiver!