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Secret Word:
Abscond
verb.
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution
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rastrohman
February 28, 2012
The two embraced, their love for each other as ubiquitous as the sunset was beautiful. I knew it. He thought he was so sly and cunning, deleting his texts, making excuses, absconding from their secretive meetings before I caught him. His problem was that I married dumb, picking a guy for looks rather than intelligence. I knew our marriage would be fleeting, but I hadn’t expected it to end quite so conveniently.
His lack of intelligence was the perfect murder weapon. Only he and his dumb floozy would be duped into meeting on the beach minutes before the tsunami hit.
100 words
@rastrohman
Kat Halstead (@katdvs)
February 28, 2012
Everything about this moment right here, right now was perfect. For the first time in years he’d felt calm, safe. For a moment he even forgot why he was on this beach, hidden from the world in a tropical paradise.
The way she looked at him, made him forget his past and the night he abscond from the car accident. It had haunted him, but right now, right here with this woman he’d forgotten it all.
She smiled as she looked up at him, her blue eyes bright, “I have an idea.”
“Oh yeah.”
“You’re under arrest, how’s that sound?”
100 Words
@KatDVS
Siobhan Muir
February 28, 2012
The evening had been perfect. Sunset walk on the beach, kisses under the stars, dinner at a beach front bistro. Tiffany had never had so much fun. They’d met that morning and spent the day and evening together. And to top it off, he’d made her body sing in ways she’d only read of in romance novels.
But morning was a whole different animal. Tiffany woke to find herself naked, alone, and her clothes and jewelry missing along with her credit cards and passport. The charming son-of-a-bitch had absconded with everything and left her facing a bill she couldn’t pay.
100 words
@SiobhanMuir
Wakefield Mahon
February 28, 2012
I waited for you, hoping you would abscond with me, like some desperado fleeing for the border. You’d take me away to that faraway place where the ocean’s crush against the shores, like two lovers in the surf and sweet blue waters teem with life.
You left me desolate and inconsolable. I thirst for you like a cooling spring, as a deciduous tree craves the springtime when it can bloom anew.
Where did you go? I refuse to believe that pile of broken metal and glass is your shuttle, that I am stranded forever on, this desert planet Arrakis, alone.
Wakefield Mahon
February 28, 2012
100 words
@WakefieldMahon
Nellie
February 28, 2012
“This is so right.” He gave a smile, holding her hands.
“Yes, it is.” Her fingers curled around his, even as the water came in, their feet sinking into the sand.
“I never thought that I’d meet someone like you. You’re perfect.” His lips curled. “I’m glad we could abscond from the rest of the party.”
She wrinkled her nose. “Flatterer.”
“But it’s true. I could stay here forever with you.”
Her arms wrapping around him, holding him against her as they sunk into the sand. Her skin grainy to the touch, her grip stronger. “Let’s.”
99 words
@solimond
Lisa McCourt Hollar
February 28, 2012
Forbidden Love
By Lisa McCourt Hollar
“But father, I love him!”
“It is forbidden,” the king roared, his anger causing the walls to vibrate.
Frightened, Princess Alulia fled her father’s chambers. Once safely in her room, she grabbed her one treasure, the locket containing her mother’s image.
Cautiously, she opened her door. She regretted that her father left her no choice but to abscond. Hurrying from the palace, she knew there would be no coming back.
Charles stared in awe at the woman rising from the sea. A simple locket around her neck, she wore nothing else. Forming legs, Alulia, embraced him with the setting sun.
Word Count: 100
@jezri1
Charles W Jones (@ChuckWesJ)
February 28, 2012
Oh, look at them standing on the beach, making out in the sunset’s fiery light. Should I warn him of his ultimate fate? After all, he is just a sucker like me. I allowed her abscond with him for my revenge. I thought I would be angry with him, but now that I see them together, I feel sorry for what he is about to go through. He turns her away from the water and she falls back onto the beach. At first, he does not realize what he has done. Then as the bloodied spikes rupture her, he understands.
@ChuckWesJ
100 Words
Sheilagh Lee
February 28, 2012
On the beach I saw the man who held my heart all these years. He stood before me like something out of a fairy tale. Seeing me seconds later he took me in his arms like we had never been apart. A lifetime of longing and love in the passionate kiss, that now overtook us. I felt a tug at my elbow as we were pulled violently apart
“How dare you abscond with my husband?” she demanded and that’s when I woke up.
It was a dream that could never happen. He was married now. It was time for a new dream.
100 words
@SweetSheil
Leslie Ramey
February 28, 2012
Lana crawled from her tight gray and white dotted seal skin and stretched her legs for the first time. Her toes wiggled in the cold wet sand.
“I’ve been waiting for you?” Startled, she turned to see a man who reached out to help her stand on wobbly legs. “You’re more beautiful than I ever imagines.”
He leaned down and brushed his lips against hers. She sucked in a shocked breath and closed her eyes to revel in the sensation. She missed the man who ran around them, absconding her discarded skin.
“I think we’ll keep you forever.” He whispered.
@LeslieBRamey
100 words
David A Ludwig
February 28, 2012
He’d spent the whole day on the beach. The sun had scoured the island mercilessly all day; and unable to afford decent air conditioning his only relief had been the cerulean waves.
She’d spent the whole day on the beach; basking in the heat soaking into her, dissolving months of tedious office automation. Her friends went into town an hour ago, but her eyes had met his.
They met in twilight on the beach. Their instant connection resonated fulfillment, and they felt like paradise was theirs alone. Eyes watched from closer than they knew; hungry to abscond with their happiness.
100 words
@DavidALudwig
J. Whitworth Hazzard
February 28, 2012
The scoundrel absconded with the plane and all my worldly possessions leaving me on this desolate island with nothing but a bikini and a broken heart. I should have known better than to trust a mysterious man named Paolo with mommy issues.
“Escape with me,” he said, “we can build a new life together outside of the tyrannous eyes of my family.”
“MY ASS,” I thought as my tears moistened the sand.
Lost in thought, I didn’t notice the strong handsome native approaching. As he scooped me into his arms, my fears melted away. “Oh no…here we go again.”
100 words
@zombiemechanics
Wende
February 28, 2012
The bills were piling up. Not much you could do about that on the salary of two teachers, even with the extra income of afterschool programs.
Their pockets were empty, but their hearts were full.
She smiled up at him and said, “shall we abscond to a place where the only thing that can break between us is the sunshine?”
All it took was her twinkling eyes to make his troubles melt away. He whisked her up and carried her gently to the water’s edge.
To others it may look like a simple bathtub, but to them, it was paradise.
100 words
@ALbinosquirrAL
Meg McNulty
February 28, 2012
Their intimacy was glorious, perfect in its innocence. Love radiated from them like a dying sun, blooming on their bare skin, dripping from their damp hair. Love for each other, love for Him.
Perfect, obedient love.
Paradise, some called it.
The serpent coiled around one spike leaved tree, curling, crushing. Waiting.
She would walk this way soon, the woman. A flicker of movement would catch her eye. Arrested, she would turn. Reach out a hand. Take, bite. Know.
Flushed with knowledge, ripe with forbidden wisdom. Ready.
The man would fear, but he would follow. Abscond.
Make their choice.
@charitygirlblog 98 words
Jeffrey Hollar
February 28, 2012
Simple Math
Desmond and Lydia embraced as the sun set on their remote island paradise. The location had been chosen more for its sovereign nation status and stringent non-extradition policy than it had been for its idyllic characteristics of sun, sand and surf, though.
It was far too late to wonder if it had been a wise decision to abscond with ten million dollars-worth of the bank’s negotiable bearer bonds. The only question remaining was: who would be the first to work out that ten million divided by one instead of ten million divided by two trumped “love” and acted upon it?
Susi Holliday (@SJIHolliday)
February 28, 2012
It was magical; gentle waves lapped at our feet as we embraced in the sand, limbs entwined as if they’d been fashioned from two halves of the same mould… Well, that’s what I told the girls when I got back to the hotel – butt naked, penniless and itching like a dog with fleas. No way was I telling them that bastard barman had left me there to sleep off the world’s worst hangover while he absconded with my clothes.
79 words
@SJIHolliday
JonathonVolkmer
February 28, 2012
August 6
6 AM
I wait for her on Ganne Beach – my geisha princess. Dark haired, doe eyed, beautiful. I can’t leave without her. I’ve stashed a boat in a little cove near here. If she agrees to abscond with me, we should make Etajima in time to find shelter. We are to meet at sunrise and…she’s here.
August 6
8:20 AM
The sun rose twice today. Once with her, and once without.
She rejected me, laughed in my face. I tried to bring her anyway, and she nearly scratched out my eye. Aimi, I love you. Forgive me.
100 words
@JonathonVolkmer
Wakefield Mahon
February 28, 2012
I’m assuming this is time-travel but soldier or chronowalker a very poignant and unexpected twist.
Sisifo
February 28, 2012
The single bulb still swung on the exposed wire, exaggerating and chasing the shadows. The living inhabitants of the room had absconded hours earlier, scurrying like cockroaches in a cellar, leaving the bloodied sheets.
The crimson spatter on the walls was a mere afterthought when compared to the hands of those wielding the silverware, it too left behind on cold metal trays. Screams echoed in the silence, pouring out of dry mouths.
Detective Sanchez found the latex glove under a sheet. Pocketing it, he smudged the faint print of one of his own fingers. No one would ever know.
99 words
@NSisifo
Miranda Gammella
February 29, 2012
Title: Making Off with the Goods
“Are you sure this is going to work?”
“Positive.”
“I’ve never done this before.”
“It’s always hardest the first time.”
“The first time?”
“Yes, we will definitely be doing this again.”
“Just how many times do you think we can abscond with his cabana keys before he catches on?”
“As long as he keeps trying to keep some Captain in him, I think as much as we want.”
The woman laughed as she pulled her fiancé close. Their friend was always losing things even when he wasn’t drunk, and she was going to make the most of their vacation.
@MLGammella
99 Words