Weekend Writing Prompt — The Fate of the Enchantress

Fandango

She was a ravishing beauty who commanded the attention of the town’s menfolk. With little effort, her success at garnering the admiration of their husbands alarmed the women of the town.

They gathered at the home of the most prominent among them, and they plotted how to betray her as a witch, for surely only witchcraft could so enchant their husbands.

One night, without warning, she was summoned to meet with the ladies at the old smelting factory on the fringe of town, where she was unceremoniously thrown into a crucible of boiling oil, never to be heard from again.

(100 words)

Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the word is “crucible.”Also for these daily prompts: Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (ravishing), MMA Storytime (effort), The Daily Spur (success), Your Daily Word Prompt (betray), Word of the Day Challenge (warning), and Ragtag Daily Prompt (fringe).

12 thoughts on “Weekend Writing Prompt — The Fate of the Enchantress”

  4. cagedunn January 10, 2021 / 11:21 am

    … so many things that could be said …
    such as …
    men can’t help drooling after wisps of beauty, never realising how juvenile they look when behaving like a pack of dogs around a bitch in heat
    … or …
    a few tips or asking for advice would get them better results, both in looks and in depth of friendships …
    but now …
    they all have something they know of each other, that to kill isn’t beyond the bitterness of their surface affections …
    and women who feel they own their men are the most dangerous women of all …
    or was that the subtext of the story?

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    • Fandango January 10, 2021 / 10:51 pm

      Woman can be quite vicious toward other women who they perceive as a threat. But so can men, I suppose.

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  5. Iain Kelly January 10, 2021 / 2:47 pm

    Must be a witch – how else to explain all those honourable men being tricked like that!! 😉

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  6. leigha66 January 11, 2021 / 4:08 pm

    Women can be vicious… this seems a tab bit extreme. Good story though.

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