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Dying With Laughter
by Tracy Davidson
If you’re gonna die, die laughing, that’s what I always say. I make sure all my clients go out that way. I prefer to call them ‘clients.’ It sounds so much more professional than ‘victims.’
Not that it’s genuine laughter of course. Poor things are usually far beyond that kind of reaction. But I’ve perfected a cocktail of gas and drugs that reduces them to hysterics. Literally. So much so, it’s too much for their weakened hearts.
My latest client has stopped laughing. His wide grin is frozen in place, forever. I cut it out, to add to my collection.
Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and writes poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including: Poet’s Market, Mslexia, Atlas Poetica, Writing Magazine, Modern Haiku, The Binnacle, A Hundred Gourds, Shooter, Journey to Crone, The Great Gatsby Anthology, WAR and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights.
Taran’s Hunt
by Tracy Davidson
No longer a child. Time to prove his manhood.
Some called the strange creatures in the next valley ‘monsters’, others ‘aliens’.
Whichever, they were not welcome.
For three days he watched over their settlement, tracked their movements. Mused over their peculiar shapes, unwieldy gaits, discordant voices.
On the fourth day, one creature wandered off alone, carrying something on a stick.
Taran’s knife broke the creature’s head shell with ease, exposing grotesque bulging
eyes. Taran took them as a gift for his father.
For his mother, he took the colourful cloth on a stick. She would like the stars and stripes.
Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and writes poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including: Poet’s Market, Mslexia, Atlas Poetica, Writing Magazine, Modern Haiku, The Binnacle, A Hundred Gourds, Shooter, Journey to Crone, The Great Gatsby Anthology, WAR and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights.