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How Am I Going to Tell Him?

This Halloween, I’ll be looking for another muse

Karen Schwartz
Fiction Shorts
Published in
2 min readOct 6, 2024

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Today’s random word is mystique.

Huey, the wonder cat. Author’s photo.

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There’s something mystifying about a Fiction Short prompt that lists a daily word without an adjoining prompt. That’s today’s drabble instruction: it’s short and sweet.

What’s Nancy up to?

As Halloween sneaks closer, I wonder if our prime editor (and creator) sits in her kitchen, stirring her cauldron full of twisted ideas, cryptic theories, and haunted clues. Is there a method to her madness, a mystique to her ways?

My tuxedo kitten, Huey, self-nominated today to be featured in a Halloween mystery. How can I tell him that black and white cats don’t make the cut?

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Karen Schwartz
Fiction Shorts

Children's picture book author, fiction writer, personal essayist, kindness specialist, and lover of chocolate.