The Stuff of Nightmares: Drabble

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

For Bodie it’s the Falls Road under a blistering African sun.  There’s a rogue detonation, the silence of aftermath, the smell of fire and flesh.  The victims could be anyone, garishly multiple or sad and singular.  He always cares about them in the dream, in a way he never did at the time.  He cares so bloody much and it seems so much more real now, that he sometimes cries.  That, he thinks bitterly, is down to Doyle. 

Nightmares can be illogical.  He must remember that.

For Doyle it’s the door quietly closing on the person who’s never coming back.



Title:  The Stuff of Nightmares
Author: JoJo
Genre:  Gen
Length: 100 words
Summary:  The stuff of nightmares

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Wow. So much powerful emotion in so few words - wonderful, thank you.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I rather enjoyed writing this *feels guilty* :)