February 14, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about zippers. What are the zippers for? What challenges do they present to the story? Go where the prompt leads! Click here for full details.
Don’t Do This With New Clothes – by Hugh W. Roberts
She’d been lucky. Nobody had noticed the price tag still attached to the dress she wore at the Christmas party.
While packing up the dress into the returns envelope to get a full refund, she noticed a zip just above the hem inside the dress.
‘That wasn’t there before,’ she announced.
Unzipping the mysterious zip, she placed her hand inside the hole. A hand grabbed her and pulled her inside the dress, but nobody heard her scream.
Although her husband filed a missing person report, she was never found and lived in darkness for the rest of her years.
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Written for the 99-word flash fiction challenge hosted by Charli Mills at the Carrot Ranch.
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Let this be a lesson to all the others who do this! Good one Hugh!
Thanks, Gloria. The idea for this piece of flash came from people I know who did what was going on in this piece.
This is one person who won’t be trying to steal clothes anymore! I know someone who worked in a clothing store who had a similar experience taking a return on a ‘new’ dress that was obviously used because she found ticket stubs and a tissue in the pocket. This was a fun story!
I know a few people who have played the ‘wear and return’ trick, Michael. Not me, though. I’d hate to end up being pulled into a pocket that I could never get out of.
Thunderstruck! What a clever take on the prompt!
Thank you.