The Drabble Diaries
by Tomoyo-chan
Star - July 13, 2012
The star was discrete, placed as if to be decorative on the red brick corner. Several support posts down, in the shadow of a hanging branch, was a narrow area of fence just slightly different from the rest. Where the others dipped down, it dipped up. It was that that caught her eye. Not the star, the dip of the white fence. Had she been younger, she would have thought it a fairy gate, but at her age she simply wondered why someone would make a fence like that. Still, it was interesting, and as pretty as the summer's day was, there wasn't much else to look at in the neighborhood.
As a child, she had loved running up and down the street of her grandparent's house. But now that they were older, they had moved into one of those preplanned communities. No longer would she race up and down the creaking stairs, or hide in the crawlspace to jump out at people, or sit in the window of the attic. Now each house was brand new and perfectly identical. Save for this one bit of fence.
Anna watched lazily as a butterfly of some sort fluttered around the tree, briefly landing on a branch, before heading to the fence. It landed once more, this time on the star, before heading over the top. Where it disappeared, with what Anna could only describe as the mental sensation of a 'pop'.
She blinked, tilting her head to see if that made the butterfly reappear. It didn't. Blinking didn't help either. Anna shook her head. It was nothing, the butterfly was on the other side of the fence, that was all.
"Anna!"
Her grandmother calling inside finally forced her away from the mystery. Fairies didn't make gates, and children didn't disappear under the stairs. There was nothing waiting for her in the dark at night. So why couldn't she get it out of her head?
Another 'real life' fanfic. This time of an actual fence I saw while out for a drive and stopped at a light. This one is a little hard to visualize without the little picture I drew, but I tried to get it across. Also, despite the fact I was on the west coast of America, it gave me a 'Holocaust'/'Underground Railroad' kinda vibe, so I'm surprised where this took me.