If Pretty Is as Pretty Does…

(A "Top In Fiction" featured story in Monthly Recap #4, March 29- May 2, 2025)

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They said she wasn’t pretty, with eyes too large, a head too angular, legs too spindly, and no waist distinction. Perhaps if she didn’t eat so much she wouldn’t have grown so large, but her appetite was voracious!

She knew no one would stop her. Those in charge actually seemed to like her methods. She would wait. Her prey would come, unsuspecting, minding their own business. She snatched them as they strolled past, and devoured them as they squirmed.

Wait. Snatch. Devour.

Simple. Effective. Fatal.

Again.

Again.

She became huge, powerful, deadly, as all of her kind should.

Rose Alice White

May 2, 2025