Flash Fiction: Smoke

It was a cold winter’s night, and the smoky apparition craved dearly for a smoke.

Her gorgeous lifeless eyes fell upon a red neon sign reading: Tobacco Shop

Passing through the doors, she made her way right to the counter and placed her ruby earring on it.

“My good man, I would like a large packet of phantom cigarettes please and I am willing to exchange my earing for it.”

“We only serve the real deal here, my dear belated ma’am,” The old manager said.

“That is such a rude thing to say, spirits are the real deal too, you know,” Said the offended blue-eyed ghost.

“You can find those in the wine shop next to the apple orchard, ma’am,” The old man said conclusively.

(Phantom cigarettes are an Indian brand of candy cigarettes)

 

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Word Count: 125

Prompts:

Six Sentence Story Word Prompt #15 

3 Things Challenge 6th August

Your Daily Word Prompt – Belated – August 6th, 2018

August Flash Fiction Draw

Manic Mondays 3 Way Prompt: Forlorn

 

38 comments

  2. Super cute! I remember as a child we used to have a couple of different candy cigarette options, the hard sticks and the gum where you could blow the “smoke” out. I look back now and wonder what the adults were thinking but as a kid I loved em. Nice job on the story.

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      1. Oh, that is cruel that you had to miss out. I think I got my fix before doubt digits and didn’t need to even go after the real thing.

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      1. Actually epiphany treats,in Italy we have the stocking filled on the night of the 5th of January by a witch called Befana,she brings treats for good kids and carbon for the misbehaving ones.its a nice tradition😀

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      3. It is and they do a bonfire on that evening with the witch at the top .they shoot at her and burn it .Its a good wish ritual for the harvests of the new year.I wrote a post about it.its nice to see.

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  9. What a unique story. And yes, i remember and enjoyed candy cigarettes as a child and real ones as an adult. Thankfully, my ghost won’t be looking for Phantoms, as I quit long time ago. Spirits, however, hmmmmmm!

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  11. Delightful Six Sentence. Had me smiling all the way through 🙂
    I had all but forgotten about candy cigarettes! Talk about a blast from the past. I daresay, they would not be “politically correct” nowadays in a lot of places lol

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  12. A blue-eyed ghost and phantom cigarettes – LOL
    Good use of the prompt.
    On a more serious note, can you imagine dying with some kind of an addiction, only to still have the same desire but being unable to have the desires sated?

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