This is my entry in response to Check Wendig’s Terribleminds.com Flash Fiction Challenge: “The Numbers Game”. In short, Chuck gave us 5 random words and we had to use 3 of them to write a 100 word piece of flash fiction.

• Enzyme
• Ivy
• Bishop
• Blister
• Lollipop

So with only a small amount of ado, here’s my entry.

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Ivy stared at the email still open on her screen. Her body paralysed, one hand locked holding the lollipop and her other hand on the mouse.

“It was a present” she thought. Ivy read the email again as the pain racked her body, trying to understand why?

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“Hope you enjoyed the gift. Of course, by now the poison will be spreading through your body.

A LIFE FOR A LIFE!

Enjoy your last few minutes.

The Bishop”

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Ivy sat at her desk unable to scream. A tear rolling down her face as a colleague smiled unknowingly at her and kept walking.