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 Grandma's Lamp Open in new Window. [E]
Winner! Daily Flash Fiction 7/14/20
by QueenNormaJean maybesnow?! Author Icon
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Rated: E | (5.0)
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Okay, you made me laugh. A great little story with a great kick in its ending. It's gruesome, odd, funny and horrific all at the same time, and that's not easy to do. Best of all, I love the matter-of-fact way in which the last line is delivered - it adds to the power of the truth behind the lamp.

The story is very cleverly delivered. It is told by a young boy, forced to visit his grandma once again though he hates doing it. The problem is grandma's lamp, apparently made from a sort of shrunken head. Much of the tale is taken up with the boy's thoughts on the head - is it real and how could it be?

So the final denouement is a surprise and a joke, a macabre slap in the face and a hearty belly laugh. It's really quite wonderful. And I can't find anything wrong with it so I'm left with little to say but well done!

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