"Kicker" a 5 minute #freewrite from the prompt: a red scarf

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The wind was bitingly cold. He pulled the collar up on his coat, but it didn't really help. He should have picked up the scarf, after all.

Not that he would admit that to his mother.

"It's cold outside," she said. "Take your hat, gloves and scarf, or you'll catch your death..."

Yeah, I'm not going to be seen dead in that scarf you knitted from scraps of wool, left over from making Dad the most garish red Christmas jumper I have ever seen. Catch my death? I'd catch my death, alright, if Kicker and his gang of thugs caught me wearing that thing out and about.

He shuddered. Not from cold, this time, but from the memory of the last time Kicker and his band of merry men had picked on him.

His mother had been going through her 'crochet phase'. Everything in the house had been covered in the stuff: the toilet rolls had little hats; the arms of the sofa had little bits of crocheted stuff on them to protect them from dirt; even the dog...

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Photo is mine, I took it a few weeks ago when we had some snow. I wrote the story using http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/ in 5 minutes. Added line breaks and italics.