“Time to pay the piper,” he said. “Your choice today. Paddle? Belt?”
“But daddy, I did’t…”
“Shut up and chose! Mama’s not here to protect you.”
“Wish I could chose a new daddy.”
This fiction was written for Trifextra: Week sixty-one.
This weekend we’re asking for exactly 33 words including an idiom somewhere within.
Mind of Shoo 
Oh, that’s sad, but great use of the idiom. Well done!
TY lumdog.
Oh no ): I wish he could choose a new daddy too!
😦 too sad that the child could not choose. Come home, mama.
awe… So sad. Great for the prompt!
Sad story… Poor little boy!
I didn’t feel terrified for the child until the phrase, your mama is not here to protect you. It was also eerie when the antagonist gave the child a choice of paddle. Good job on a terrifying piece.
This is so tragic and so well composed. I love your use of idiom, though I’m not so keen on that father.
Good use of the idiom, although a scary scene.
What a sad situation. I like how you wrote the idiom.
What an awful Dad-he needs to be throttled & thrown to the dogs!Poor baby!Great use of the prompt:-)
hmm that seems so wrong… I know fiction…and had to use an idiom…it just got to me more than it should have 😦
It is a reality to some in this world. So sad.
The worst kind of choice!