Welcome to day three of the A to Z Challenge! My theme is 100 word (give or take a word or two) flash fiction on the 
darker side of human nature. I hope you enjoy.
Crave
I crave. I crave so badly it is a physical hurt inside of me. My organs cry out and my blood boils, burning me, searing me. I crave. I crave for something that can take the pain away. Something that can make me feel normal again. No pain, no burning in my veins, just euphoria. Power. I crave for that moment when they take their last breath and I can see the light fading from their eyes, the life inside dying like a tiny flame. That moment when I am the only thing they see and the only thing they will remember. I crave.
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Very well written, very dark.
Thank you 🙂
Channeling a serial killer? Or…? You know, I’m not going to finish that thought.
Haha, very much just fiction! 😉
Seriously dark! Blood-curling!
Thank you!
*shudder* That is beautifully put. There is no doubting the protagonists total focus and overwhelming need.
Tasha
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it and thanks for coming back!
Dark Debbie!!!! I crave cupakes 😉
Thank you 🙂 Haha, cupcakes sound pretty good!
Very nice, Debbie! Dark indeed… well channeled 🙂
Thanks for the visit over at Life In Dogs much appreciated!
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Powerful. The reason I keep coming back to your space here is to see how you cleverly you use such few words to create strong, strong images. I’m loose and languid when I write…see, even a comment takes me this long! Ha! and you have to suffer and read. Sorry:)
wow! that was quite an image – I hope it’s fiction and not what’s really going on inside you (it would eat you up otherwise!) Leanne @ cresting the hill
I assure you it’s very much fiction! The only things I crave are caffeine and the occasional chocolate bar lol 🙂
Wow- so much darkness in so few words. I love it!
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Very dark. But quite interesting at the same time. Personally, I crave sweets. My sweet tooth has a sweet tooth and I can never get enough.
Same here, a bar of chocolate keeps me quite happy lol 🙂
Eek! I don’t wish to meet this creature. Excellent writing.
No, me neither! Thank you 🙂
Very cleverly written. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Debbie, another beauty! Is this about addiction and demons?
Thank you 🙂 It’s funny you should ask that. I originally had a serial killer in mind when I wrote this, but when I read it back, I kind of thought addiction too and the part where the last bit of life drains away was the drugs talking.
Too funny! Art is beautiful that way…everyone sees something different in it.
That’s true, we all have our own way of looking at something
Love it. I especially love personifying body parts in my writing, so the organs crying out really got me.
Thank you 🙂 It’s something I like to do too!
Another gripping post! Very dark but I love it! #atozchallenge x
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying them 🙂 x
Really like your theme for the A to Z Challenge! Looking forward to more.
Thank you, I hope you like the rest 🙂
That is intense!
Sophie
Sophie’s Thoughts & Fumbles
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Thank you (at least I hope you mean that in a good way lol)
Great job! It’s not easy to get that much emotion and story written in 100 words.
Trisha – Vintage Daze
Thank you 🙂 It was quite hard to get the word count so low but I really enjoyed writing these posts
That’s one evil so-and-so! But the term ‘crave’ is right smack dab on the money.
Reminds me of a book I read a few months ago where the killer skinned his victims alive. I am in awe of writers who can pack so much into so few words!
LuAnn (approx #369 on the list) @ Back Porchervations
(and one of co-host AJ Lauer’s #wHooligans)
Is it wrong that that book sounds right up my street! Thank you so much 🙂
Very creepy. Good job getting into the mind of a killer!
Thank you 🙂
I am amazed with how you manage to get me so gripped with only 100 word! I think you need to start thinking about writing a novel!! Xx #iwouldlikeyouto #atozchallenge
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 I actually am writing a novel and that’s kind of dark too!
Your character’s craving illustrates a very tortured soul with little chance for redemption. An amateur interpretation, at best, but an honest reply. If the craving is for chocolate, I can definitely relate.
Gail’s 2016 April A to Z Challenge
C is for Chili Wisconsin-style and Characters who take Control
I think that’s a very good interpretation. And yes, chocolate works for me too 🙂
What a disturbing but well-written monologue. I’m hoping that the individual who is saying all this has been caught by the authorities and now he is “opening up” during his interrogation.
Thank you 🙂 That’s a good way to look at it!
Great writing. If I didn’t know it was fiction, I’d be worried to meet you in a dark alley.
Thank you 🙂 Haha, I promise it’s very much just fiction!
Dark. Like the chocolate I’m craving right now. 🙂
Oooh good idea!
You certainly have accomplished a dark and descriptive side of craving in 100 words. Good to know your own cravings are similar to mine…chocolate and chocolate…oh, and chocolate. Good job! Thanks for visiting my crochet post…I also crave yarn!
Thank you 🙂 Yes, my cravings are a lot more rational than this character’s! Yarn is a good craving for someone who crochets 🙂
Oooh! I love it, right up my alley.
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Dark – you’re not kidding! This would be an incredible book, written from the POV of the dark and twisted…the protagonist being the sadist/killer/monster/supernatural being. I would read it…and wonder WTF is going on in the author’s head! Hahaha, I am looking foward to more & am glad to have found you through the challenge!
I would love to try and expand on this and I’m always tempted to write from the perspective of the killer. Yeah, I think people would question my sanity but they probably do that already lol 🙂 Thank you!
Love this!
Thank you!
Serial killer flash fiction!!! I am a serial killer junkee, so I loved today’s entry.
~Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
Thank you, I love serial killer stories too!
I love it! I crave hot cheetos. If I’m good until Friday I get some, and I won’t even have to kill somebody for them!
Thank you 🙂 Here’s to hoping you are good then haha!
100 words is not as easy as it looks; I used a site ‘100 Words a Day’ when I was suffering from writers’ block – the Challenge was – exactly100, for as many months as you could manage. I craved release from it in the end.
I’ve really enjoyed doing 100 word fiction but I think I would be the same if I was doing it long as I’m usually very wordy!
Hi, Debbie! Darkly disturbing image, this…
(P.S. At the risk of being in the craver’s crosshairs, here – you can just “crave” a thing. It’s odd to read “crave for.” I crave chocolate; I don’t crave for chocolate. I actually burn with a craving for chocolate (see, you can stick “for” in there if it’s “a craving” – noun, not verb!)
We writers are a scary lot when we start head-hopping into our villains, aren’t we? 🙂
Haha, no you’re safe – I’m new to flash fiction and appreciate any advice I can get, thank you! We can be a scary bunch that’s for sure 🙂
At the lower end of the scale, the need for medication to deal with an abcess on a tooth.
Very dark for a flash piece and nicely done. 🙂
Ouch, sounds painful! Thank you very much 🙂
I missed you blog post the first few days. I bookmarked it so I wouldn’t miss it, but I did. Now that I I found my way back, I won’t miss it again. I’m so impressed with your talent.You’re doing an incredible job writing these dark stories with such few words. They are so menacing and vivid. I clearly detect a serial killer in this piece craving the death of his victim. He needs his kill to quelch his unbearable pain. I’m reading them out of order. I hope that won’t make a difference or mess up the story.
Melissa Sugar
I’m glad you found me again 🙂 Thank you, I’m really glad you’re enjoying them! They aren’t related except by the theme so you can read them in order
Very powerful and intense Debbe. You scared the living daylights out of me!
Thank you, and sorry for the scare!
Loving these posts! #AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂
I agree with the others – this is really dark. It’s frightening to read even. Very well written Debbie! Thanks so much for hosting #AnythingGoes x
Thank you so much, and thanks for linking up 🙂 x
That conjured up all sorts of images! I like the way you led the reader down a few different paths there.
x Alice
#anythinggoes
Thank you so much, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Oooh very scary. My first thought on reading it was that it was a serial killer, but re-reading it, I picked up on the words “pain” and “physical hurt” so there’s obviously more to it than this. Someone who has been badly hurt or abused and wants revenge? Thanks for hosting #AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂 I was thinking serial killer when I wrote it, but yes, I think there would be a good back story as to why this person was killing. Thanks for linking up!
Love it! Very powerful and dark 🙂 #anythinggoes xxx
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 x
Wow, very dark! I love it!
Em xXx
#AnythingGoes
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 x
Spoken like a true serial killer 😉 very creative!
Sally @ Life Loving
Thank you 🙂
Absolutely wonderful! I feel that an entire book could be written on the person portrayed here-you surely are talented! <3 #anythinggoes
Thank you so much 🙂 I’m thinking of making this into a longer piece!
Deep and dark – I love the power of words to take you to a certain place #AnythingGoes
Thank you, me too!
This sounds like the perfect first page for a novel that I would read! I love crime thrillers, and crime fiction… All the blood and guts don’t bother me,.
Pop me over a copy once you finish this book 😉
#AnythingGoes xxx
I love crime books too! I’m actually thinking of working this into something longer. I will definitely give you a shout if I do 🙂 x
Darkly Dreaming Debbie channeling Dexter there (minus disappointing ending). Could easily be a Rammstein lyric too!
An interesting challenge!
#AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂 I’m loving the challenge!
A beautiful, disturbing and eloquent description of how serial killers tend to feel. #AnythingGoes
Thank you so much 🙂
This is very dark!! 🙂 and very well written I would opt for wine…, cake or shoes! Says a lot I know!! Thanks for hosting #AnythingGoes x
Thank you 🙂 Wine, chocolate or shoes for me lol x