Thin Ice

Flash Fiction — HORROR!

On my Goodreads author page, someone (or some robot) posted a challenge: Write a two sentence horror story. It was posted a long time ago, but I answered it anyway, in 2022. Remember, it’s a HORROR story:

Thin Ice

Flash Fiction by Richard J. Schneider

The trio made big and little footprints in the one inch snow covering the iced over lake as mom, dad, and the little boy walked out along the line of ice fishing huts twenty five yards off shore. Not realizing thin weak ice covered the old fishing holes enough to support only the new snow, the family walked on enjoying the sunny mid winter day, but when they turned to take a photo of their son behind them all they saw was a dark round hole in the blazing white snow a dozen paces back, and no boy.

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I have been “doodle” writing since the pandemic started. Actually, since a bit before. This is a doodle. When not doodling I mess around with ham radio and write the popular Vic Bengston Invesgitation series of mysetery novers available in Elektrik and dead tree formats. You can find there by clicking HERE. © 2022 richard j. schneider