Suzy woke up with a start. She looked at the dilapidated building and her tattered dress.
What the hell had happened? All she could recall was the party last night where she had an extra shot of tequila. But what had happened after that? Had she passed out? How had she ended up here? Had she been raped?
She could feel some pain in her lower abdomen.
The thought made her feel wretched. How could someone do that to her? Tears trickled down her eyes as she walked directionless.
2 things happened at that instant- 3 of her friends jumped from behind a bush shouting “April fool” as Suzy lost in her thoughts did not see a sharp boulder, she fell head on and blood spattered all around.
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Chartered Accountant, Story Teller, Dreamer, Voracious Reader, Blogger, Mommy to a little munchkin, Shopaholic, Day Dreamer.Passionate about my career in the corporate world and aspire to break the glass ceiling, at the same time nurture my passion for writing. My niche area is short stories, I also write on parenting, sexism, life's experiences, micro blogs and flash fiction. I have won the best Parenting blog post at mycity4kids.com the largest parenting website in India, 4 times and several of my posts have been published in the #MostPopular category on this site garnering millions of views. I also write on Bonobology, Rivo Kids, Women's Web and Youth Ki Awaaz. My blog has been chosen as the Top Indian Blogs for the years 2018-2019,2020 by TopIndianBlogs website and found a place in the prestigious Top 22 Indian Literary Blogs in 2020 @TopIndianBlogs.
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That prank did not end well at all!
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Not at all
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That’s unfortunate. And appalling luck.
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Truly appalling
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An unexpected and unintended outcome.
Click to read my FriFic tale!
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Indeed one!
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Oh my God! Those friends go all out with their pranks! I’m not surprised it ended the way it did! When I used to have prank wars with my roommates we only did innocent things like rubbing each other’s toothbrushes on our balls. Looking back though, I did get sick a lot that year.
Moral is- pranks never end well. At best you damage a friendship, at worst you die from a blow to the head.
Great story!
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Your pranks seems “yuck”…cant imagine that one! I have always been wary of pranks played at the expense of others.
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Suzy was not raped but she broke her forehead, anyway. Not a good start to a day. Not even an April fool’s day.
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True indeed very bad!
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Oh my god, she fears the worse, realises it’s all a sick joke then smashes her head in, all in 100 words, well done
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you summarised it much better in fewer words!
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What! Some friends….
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Yea π
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What a strange story. I’d get some new friends.
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I wanted to highlight the ill effects of bullying which people sometimes refer to as β playing pranksβ
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I agree with you so much, it is total bullying.
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Oh heavens! Totally unexpected.
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True that!
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Well that didn’t go well!
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Say not
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Oh god, what a gruesome end. I expected a rape story and instead got a prank gone bad. Well written!
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Thanks Lav!
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Oh no! How creepy. So what happened at the party? And what happened at the end? Did she die? I know stories are meant to be open ended so that the reader can come to his own conclusion. This was mine – she passed out drunk, got up feeling disoriented and when her friends shouted out to her, she hurt her head and died. Was this the end you envisaged?
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They were playing a prank on her. She thought she was raped at the party cos she was too drunk but the truth was they created a rape scene just for fun. At the end though it turned tragic as she died cos she was still under the illusion that she was date raped and with that thing in her mind had a bad fall which proved fatal.
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Gosh that was quite a twisted tale . Sorry – not my idea of fun at all π¦
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Neither mine π
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