A fifty-word #ZapFic50 story written by Bruce @felt.buzz, inspired by @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt "he shook his head"
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The King is a psychopath with a keen sense of poetic justice. A watchman caught cheating at the gaming tables is swiftly decapitated, dice fitted in scraped out eye sockets. The laughing king shakes the head, taking bets from his nervous subjects on the outcome of the rattling spinning cubes.
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