Darkening – #fridayflash

For this week's #fridayflash piece of fiction I went digging around in my short story archives. I'll often write up part of a short story, or write a short story as flash fiction, to get the ideas down and return to them later. Sometimes I'll develop those ideas into a proper short story that I'll try to sell somewhere, sometimes they're better left as flash fiction (which I may also try to sell somewhere) and sometimes they're better left alone completely (like the great ideas you jot down...