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Leonard

November 13, 2022 7 Comments

By Louisa King

The mouth was stretched wide, snaggleteeth bared, glassy eyes rolled back. Clumps of matted mane sprouted from patches of frayed skin.

“Milk? Sugar?” Amy asked. Mikey stood in the doorway, staring.

“Oh, you’ve met Leonard then.”

He didn’t expect such a timid woman to have a thing like that on her living room wall.

“Old family heirloom,” she explained.

Taxidermy aside, her flat was lovely, he thought. He could see himself quite comfy here if things worked out.

Later, as Amy mopped up Mikey’s blood and leftover bones, she muttered to the old lion, “Leonard, that was definitely the last time.”

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Comments

  1. Kelly Louisa Balliu says

    November 14, 2022 at 2:28 am

    Love the way you dived straight into a great description. Well done 🙂

    Reply
  2. Yogita says

    November 16, 2022 at 9:52 am

    Oops! Didn’t expect the end..loved your writing

    Reply
  3. Rachel Glowacki says

    November 16, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    Yikes, that gave me chill. Great!

    Reply
  4. Ekta Garg says

    November 17, 2022 at 5:25 pm

    Oh, how I love this! Great job. :>

    Reply
  5. Chetana Vaishnavi says

    November 18, 2022 at 11:03 am

    So good. So surprising ??

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  6. Jean Barbaro says

    November 19, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    Creepy good!

    Reply
  7. Pamela Cartlidge says

    December 12, 2022 at 11:03 am

    Loved it!

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