FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE

100 Word Flash Fiction Challenge by Chuck Wendig…

SHOTS FIRED

I couldn’t contain myself any longer. I shot the first kid, maybe five or six years old, right in the chest. He cried out. I shot the next kid and then another and then another. People stared in shock. I was the new Pastor of a little town named Riata in New Mexico. The annual Chili Pepper Festival attracted hundreds from near and far. I walked over to Nina Fuentes, last year’s Festival Queen, and handed her the green water pistol. She took it and smiled. “I’ve wanted to do that since I found it in a pew this morning.”