So another prompt at dVerse Poets …
It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end. It can be in any genre of your choice, but it does have a limit of 144 words; an additional challenge is to hit 144 exactly. The special thing about Prosery is that we give you a complete line or two from a poem, which must be included somewhere in your story, within the 144-word limit.
The complete line or two in this case are from Leonard Cohen and his poem “Take this Waltz” with the lines being …
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora
“Hey Jaimie, check this out, just found this covered in moss behind a tree”
Presents a tattered book with dead flowers pinned to it and a warning “DO NOT OPEN”
“Well, let’s see what’s in it”
“It says not to open Billy”
“C’mon, probably just a note left by the 11 year old girl who lost it. It looks like a scrapbook”
“I don’t know, it doesn’t feel right”
Billy opening the scrapbook finds it filled with photo’s of people and notations of the date/time of their deaths and scribbled inside the cover …
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss
At that moment a man in a black fedora appeared.
The air stilled.
Then Billy was gone and all Jaimie caught as the fedora’d man closed the scrapbook was a quick glimpse of Billy’s picture.
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