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This is the freewrite challenge. I am using @mariannewest’s #freewrite prompt to write this piece (https://steemit.com/partiko/@mariannewest/day-620-freewrite-prompt-metal-butterfly-r8y3eaca)
Today’s prompt is:
metal butterfly
This is part Thirty Three of my current freewrite series - I’m calling it RatsNest for now - (posted daily Monday - Saturday).
You can find parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, Twenty Six,Twenty Seven, twenty eight, Twenty nine, Thirty, Thirty One, Thirty Two if you are interested
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Kelly sat on the bed. Her head was thumping and her thoughts thick and slow. Whatever they had given her was still in her system.
They.
Yes, there was another one. Alice? Anne? Something like that. The girl from the cafe. The one with the stare that seemed to see right inside your head.
Kelly took another deep breath and tried to remember what had happened. They had taken her phone.
And then they'd given her something to listen to... her eyes widened as she remembered. The music they had played was more than familiar to her. A track by the band called "Metal Butterflies". Her father used to be the guitarist back in the day when you were free to produce music without it first being approved by the Government. They played her favourite track the one with her father's guitar solo that made her want to cry every time she heard it: Dark Feathers was the name of the track. And as she had listened to it she had felt a needle prick her skin.
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As usual, I started with the freewrite prompt and used themostdangerouswritingapp.com to write the first five minutes (and then popped it into google docs to check for errors and tidy it up a bit):
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The NEW @SteemFiction book, has been published! Currently available on Amazon for the Kindle it is now available as a paperback too!
Dead Silence
9 tales of MURDER from some of your favourite STEEM writers!
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I have a story in it called The Still Blood-Soaked Path
A YouTube documentary film-maker visits a remote island to investigate the horrific murder of a young woman, and the subsequent suicide of her killer almost thirty years ago. But was the young lover really responsible for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend? And if not who was?
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I had a comment left on one of my freewrites and I have to say, it made my day!
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If you want a taster of what is in the book, the video below shows me reading the first 900 words, or so, of my story, The Tell-Tale Dead
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