She had followed the man for hours and at last her patience was paying off.
The attack was over in seconds.
“You’re too good for this world” he said as he lifted the hammer.
The pumpkin disintegrated.
(later)
Someone must have seen him, because the police were at his door.
Written in response to the #fiftywords challenges that @jayna has been posting.
The prompt for this week was “pumpkin”:
@jayna/fifty-wordstorychallengefunwritingopportunity-8mugjgabaz
In other news,
You Really Need to Follow @donallogue
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