FLASH FIC FRIDAY - "BLOODY" Branson's SECRET

 

Flash Fic - a short, short story of exactly 100 words...posted on random Fridays!

This week – "BLOODY" BRANSON'S SECRET

    Rainstorms drenched the town, unveiling a curse. "Bloody" Branson, the Confederate Colonel, met his doom by his own troops' guns, branded a coward. Yet history got it wrong and erected a statue to the man in the cemetery as a local hero. 

    His statue, astride his steed, concealed a sinister enchantment. When rain fell, the statue transformed to life, seeking to keep his cowardice a secret. Brandon and his horse killed anyone who knew or suspected.

    Whispered secrets of mislabeled history abound. A group came to topple the statue. They were too late. Branson kept true history in the dark.