This is an entry into @felt.buzz's ZapFic contest. You are challenged to write a story with 240 characters with today's prompt being "exception".
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I followed the spell, with one tiny exception. I had to use bat blood instead of wings. Similar properties, so it should have worked.
I poured the elixir in the mouth of the excavated corpse.
The corpse exploded, chunks of flesh on fire!

[credit@EdibleCthulhu]


