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Clare-Dragonfly ([personal profile] clare_dragonfly) wrote2013-05-03 10:08 pm

Fiction: Stiff

Title: Stiff
World: Extranormal Crimes
Word count: 100
Rating: G
Prompt: [community profile] rainbowfic Caput Mortuum 3, Rigor Mortis
Notes: This is rather silly.


“Wakey wakey,” Maggie said, knocking on the lid of the coffin.

It opened immediately and Hugh sat up, bright-eyed and smiling. “Are we there?”

“No.” She yawned resentfully. “I need a break. You drive until we hit another stream and I’ll nap.” She glared in sleepy annoyance as he leapt out of the coffin. “How are you not stiff after sleeping in a box in the back of a truck for six hours?”

He stretched from side to side, obviously enjoying the fact that he didn’t really need to. “I’m way past rigor mortis. Keys? Right, off we go.”

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[personal profile] smw 2013-05-16 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
This got a chuckle out of me. Cute!