The Dance | A 100 Word Story

#142 The Sudden Walk

The music coming from Hanover House was so loud the ground at the cemetery vibrated. The house was filled with guests in costume, drinking and laughing and dancing to the music. No one noticed the couple who floated a few inches off the floor when they moved.

They wore their wedding attire from the blessed day that took place nearly a century ago in this very house. He was much smaller in his tuxedo and she didn’t fill out her dress quite like she used to.

Their skeletal faces shone by the lights of the disco ball. And they danced.

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The Sudden Walk

Short Fiction Stories, thought experiments exploring the human condition.

By Hamish Kavanagh

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