Friday Fictioneers : There’s a Troll Lives There

Thanks to Piya Singh for this week’s photo prompt.

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‘There’s a troll lives there.’ Thomas points with a grubby digit.

The mill race is little more than a trickle. Ferns ruffle its edges and moss softens the tumbled stones.

Sarah shakes her head. ‘No room. Trolls is taller’n you sitting on my shoulders.’

Thomas isn’t sure how Sarah has learned this tantalising fact, but she’s older by eighteen months, so perhaps this kind of knowledge comes with age.

‘Wanna go down anyway?’ says Thomas.

Sarah shrugs. She prefers butterflies and sunlit meadows to cold damp hollows.

In the darkness, the creature holds its breath.

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Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers. See the (gorgeous) pic and write a story of 100 words to go with it. Full Ts and Cs here.