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Six Sentence Story: Quarter
A Writing prompt by: GirlieOnTheEdge
“Heading to the store, be right back,” were the last words Shay heard from Rio.
It was three months ago to the day, a full quarter of the year, when Rio left on a supply run.
He had joked about it like they always did; supply runs were pretty routine by then, considering the two of them had been running them every week ever since…
Rio never returned, and despite searching, Shay never found any signs of him or where he may have gone.
There was no indication that Rio had ever made it to the abandoned, stripped bare grocery store, and Shay had to assume the worst; Rio was probably dead, or worse.
Rio could be one of them now.
This is my contribution to the Six Sentence Story prompt from GirlieOnTheEdge. The word this week was: Quarter.
Oooh! (I said when I read) “one of them”. Splendid, Ollie 🙂
Thank you, Chris. It makes me happy to know that I can elicit such a response from you.
Simple and chock full of questions begging for answers, Ollie.
You know we’ll all will want to know who “them” are, right? lol
Keep dishing out those prompts and maybe we’ll see who ‘them’ is 😉
Or, maybe I’ll get around to writing up a couple pages at some point.
More tease than a burlesque dancer. 🙂 Well done.
😂 😂 😂 That’s the best comment ever.
🙂
nice
soul of wit, yo, soul of wit
(I now have yet another case of serial story envy)
lol
Await Part 2 to know more about ‘them’ 🙂
You’ll regret asking when you find out 😉 Mwahahahaha
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Quite the tease. Well done in six sentences.
Good one, Ollie. I always like it when one of the survivors go missing and we’re left with ‘but how?’ and our worst imagination. Extra tension here as we’re left also wondering who exactly are ‘them’ !
Thanks, Mage!
I’m happy to bring tension to your life! *bow*
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Intriguing.
Nicely built to leave us hanging…
Suspense is my middle name, mwahaha
So sad. Maybe if they’d made those runs together, they could have helped each other survive.
Perhaps… But, at the same time, maybe neither of them would have made it, and Shay only survived because they stayed back.
😉
Thank you for reading.
The “dead, or worse” makes me wonder what Rio became.
In the wise words of the tootsie-pop owl… The world may never know.
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But… You’ll know, eventually, if you hang out and read future updates 😁
So, either a Zombie, or one of those critters from “A Quiet Place.”
Shay might be hoping now to stay alone…
Shh 🤫 they’ll hear you
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Oh, that’s good. Keeping us wondering about ‘where’, ‘why’, ‘what’… But still making a very understandable story out of it. Nice one.
Thank you. You make my head swell with pride 😀
Fantastic story. I love how you were able to hint at a larger world and story behind this little snippet.
Thank you! There really is a big world out there that I’ve barely scratched the surface of.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and to comment!
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I wonder who or what the “the,” refers to. It doesn’t sound good either way! Great story!
Thank you! It is definitely nothing good. Nothing in these stories ever is 😂