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Prompt #973:

• Genre: fairy tale/fantasy
• Word: bait
• Action: facing a firing squad

Story (97 words, per Microsoft Word):

Of all his hive’s leprechauns, Melovi wasn’t the smartest: no ideas sprang unbidden from Melovi’s noggin. But he could certainly procure outcomes, by Og! Good, bad, indifferent: Things happened around Melovi!

But finally, gold’s fatal gleam… gold: leprechaun bait, a pretty fishhook on an invisible string… This time, a simple earring, on a deceptively unguarded tabletop. Melovi had but reached for it — and was stuck fast, epoxied in place.

He had told the human little. But he’d told the human enough. And now, his last sunrise: blindfolded, before six master archers. Things still happened around Melovi!