The title gives away what the mysterious flickering is likely to be, which is a shame, because I enjoyed the story on the whole.

In the fourth paragraph, you don’t need to capitalise the the ‘a’ in ‘A mansion really’, and I think you mean prized ‘possession’ rather than ‘position’.

Other than these, I like the central character – unassuming and endearing. Reading on… MH :)

Thanks for the feedback!

I’ve corrected the issues you found.

The title is from the Grims fairytale that it is based on.