NYCM Prompts
Genre: Horror | Action: planning a wedding | Word: provide
[Round 1: [top 15]; progressed to Round 2]
She stalks me. All through the planning – cakes, bouquets, dresses – there she is. Withered fingers outstretched, desperate to snatch me. She draws closer and closer.
“He’ll provide for you,” my friends agree, oblivious to her presence. “He’s a good catch.”
She snarls, lips peeling back to reveal a grotesque empty maw. That familiar putrid stench of stagnant water chokes the breath from me.
“And what happened to his late wife,” they chatter. “So tragic—”
Her dark eyes glint, watching my silent struggle. Her mouth contorts into a slash of a smile.
Just like mine when I drowned her.
C.A. Raine 