Chubby fingers fumble with the expectation of the moment. He has dreamt of this for so long. She’s perfect – young, athletic, beautiful.
She becomes his first. He keeps her button in a box.
Months later ten others join it. His thirst unquenched.
Trinkets – a microstory
The Write Melony 
Is he a serial dated or a serial killer?
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Killer. 😶
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Oh, I wanted it to be sweet and innocent. But I do see the killer aspect… too many episodes of Criminal Minds.
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Haha me too and Bones and the hundred other cop serials. Sorry it couldn’t be sweet and innocent. Haha
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Dater*
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oh :O i read your comment to fatim181 and did a second read.
so many meanings and i love each layer! thank you for sharing ❤
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Yay! I’m so glad it worked. I spent do much time deliberating on how to say it in the allowed word count. 😄
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Oh dear. A button collector. That’s not good.
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Haha nope. It’ll surely be his downfall. Keeping trinkets of his crimes. 😀
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So much packed in 42! Great job with the prompt.
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Thanks! I agonized over it for a few hours. Wanted to get just the right feel to it. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Aaah you could feel the creepiness!
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I hoped you would. I was pretty creeped out by the guy too!
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Oh, at first, I thought dater too! I had a reread. Really beautifully written. Sinister yet ambiguous. 🙂
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Sorry I couldn’t make it clearer in the piece. I debated on the police finding the box of buttons and linking them to the murders, but I thought it was too cliche.
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No, ambiguity is better! Let the reader think and decide, I reckon.
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I like how you kept the tone neutral, that’s why I read it as innocent at first. Of course killers get nervous, too. And they wouldn’t think of themselves as sinister, would they?
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Nope. They definitely don’t. I imagine he wasn’t very nervous by the time he got to the 10th one tho. ☺
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“Chubby” lent it an air of innocence, IMO, but only for the first couple of words. It got pretty sinister pretty fast. Creepy, creepy little story. Nice job.
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I like the ambiguity in this creeperKiller maybe. He could leave them alive and still be a bastard.
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Lol yes! He could. But he doesn’t. 😂
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