"You're so precious!", she joked playfully.
He turned away so she didn't see him blush, and shuffled nervously in his seat.
"No," he smiled, turning toward her and reaching out to touch her cheek, "you are."
His icy touch spread through her body. She tried to scream, but her face had already turned to gold.
- Victoria Collins, Kent Coast Ghosts
#vss365, or "Very Short Stories" began life on Twitter as an opportunity for writers to share a short story within the Twitter character limit based on a daily word prompt. The challenge is that the prompt must be included in the story itself! Anyone is welcome to join in - just search on Twitter for the hashtag, click on "latest" and you'll see the day's tweets featuring the daily prompt.