Scaring Fields

By Wren Roberts

Matilda thought she had gotten away with breaking the rules. But when her name appears in blood on a rock, her village elders send her out as the monthly sacrifice. Armed with a steak knife and a flash light, Matilda's not sure she's ready to die. Supposedly the scarecrows will eat her, but she's pretty certain the mayor has something to do with it.

Scaring Fields is a stand-alone short story of approximately 4,900 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wren Roberts
• Release date: Jun 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310821608

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Scaring Fields

Copyright 2014 Wren Roberts

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Scaring Fields

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Scaring Fields

The way Matilda figures it, she has two choices: She can keep walking out to the scaring fields and die, or she can try and run. Running, she understands, isn't really an option. Running would only be delaying the inevitable, with the added bonus that not only would she also, again, die, but so would everyone she knows.

She keeps walking

Now it is dark, and without the light of the moon, it is hard to see anything. Luckily, she knows these footpaths well. How many times has she walked them on her way to help with the harvest? How many times has she run this way, looking for her brother at supper? Now she wonders how long it will be until They grab her and take her away.

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