Hey! Watch it! You’re scaring her. Me? Scaring her?!?
Bonus story this week: Prompt from 2 Girls on a Bench podcast. Hear the story read to you HERE
Buford held a bucket over the hissing pixie. Her skirt was snagged on the bumper of his rusted ’57 Chevy. The tiny creature’s wings fluttered frantically keeping her aloft as she gnashed her teeth at him and struggled to free herself.
May, his half-fae roommate, observed the situation. “Hey! Watch it! You’re scaring her.”
“Me? Scaring her?!?” Buford dodged in an attempt to trap the pixie long enough to free her skirt. She whirled and snapped at his fingers.
May circled to get a better angle. She started to point out an opening when a mangy beast landed on the bumper of the truck and snatched the pixie up in its jaws. The smoky-gray hellcat launched itself across the shop floor with the pixie.
“Alley! Get back here,” Buford bellowed and ran after them. May snatched up the bucket and swooped down, dropping it over the hellcat and its prize.
Buford and May gave each other a wary look. May shrugged and bent down to raise one edge of the bucket. Buford snatched up Alley as he sprang free and dislodged the pixie. She returned the favor by biting Buford’s knuckle before flying off. The hellcat’s eyes flamed, and its claws extended as it flipped in Buford’s hands.
May smacked him, “Stop! You’re provoking him.”
“Me? Provoking him?!?” Buford dropped the feline before it could get a grip.
Alley, the hellcat, landed on all fours and sauntered out of the shop, flicking his tail as if to say, “Yeah, you.”
Photo by Santiago Steinkamp
