DRABBLE STORY ARC #1: UNTIL LUCK RUNS OUT

The Rider’s Scythe

A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story — Drabble edition!

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Dark rider with a scythe.
Image by the author using MidJourney.

This is a continuation of You Are Dead, a Choose Your Own Adventure Story — Drabble Edition started by Bradan Writes Stories. Find out how to contribute here, or return to the previous chapter: Hunting For a Joker”,To the Mansion of Diabolus”, “The Weirdness of the House”, “No Twisting out of This”, or “Lord Diabolus’ Bedchamber”.

You step towards the entranceway. If you are brave, surely things will go well?

But the beat of hooves is in your ears, and your blood runs cold again.

You move ahead and stop at the area immediately before the iron gates, in front of the mansion. The moon is shining, but the rider is in shadow. It dismounts, and you see the glint of armor.

No, a scythe! It slashes out, and you screech in pain.

You flee again, blindly, not stopping until the back of the house. A wooden shed lies ahead, and you reach for its door…

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JF Danskin
Choose Your Own Adventure — Collaboration

Writing fiction (fantasy especially) and poetry, enthusiast for creativity, collaboration, community. An Editor at the Fiction Writer's Den.