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Your Photo Prompt for Week #2- 2016
The opening sentence for the January 8th Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner: “It seemed a good idea at the time?”
Interrogation
“IT SEEMED A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, but we should have moved his interrogation to a different location,” Grant complained.
“Don’t worry about it, we will just have to work with what we have,” Boris said.
“Sure! We can barely see down here in this dungeon of a cellar and now two more lights have gone out!”
“I said, don’t worry about it. We can use the darkness to our advantage. I’ll get him out of the closet and we can get started.”
“Sit down Mr. Knox,” Boris commanded. “Tell us where you were between 10 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. last night.”
“Why are you calling me Mr. Knox?”
“Just answer the question or I will have to force the answer out of you!”
“You’re crazy! Let me out of here! You had no right to bring me down here.”
“Be quiet or I’ll have to use my brass knuckles on you.”
“I’ll get them for you,” Grant said.
“No! Stop it! Why are you doing this?”
The cellar door opens and floods the room with light.
“Boys! Come on upstairs, it’s time for dinner,” their mother yells.
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Copyright © 2016 Written by Jessie Cross ~ All rights reserved
Hahaha, I love the twist. Wasn’t expecting to see young boys play acting, 😄
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Thank you! 🙂
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How cute! The boys are just playing. You had me convinced!
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Thanks, Joy! Glad it worked! 🙂
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LOL! It did! 😀
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My cousins and I…. Were you stalking us! Loved thee take on the prompt!!!
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Ha! Ha! Probably stalked a lot of kids like this! You know the old saying…”boys will be boys”
Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Ha ha, the ending surprised me. I liked it. 🙂
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Thank you, Yinglan! I appreciate your reading and commenting. 🙂
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That was cute. I wasn’t expecting the Mom to call them for dinner, I thought something bad was going on, not a game. Great suspense and twist.
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Thank you, Mandi! I’m glad you like it. 🙂
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Why is it always the small guys that get picked to play the villains especially when the villain doesn’t win.
Great twist.XD
I sent you an email, please let me know your thoughts.
Thank you.
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Ha! Probably because they appear to be vulnerable.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Ha! Didn’t see that end coming. By the way, I’m sure you know but have “your” instead of “you’re” in one sentence.
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Thank you! 🙂 and thank you for pointing out the error, I appreciate that. Will get it corrected now. 🙂
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Thank goodness. It was just the children playing. i feared some violent ending. Enjoyed your story and the twist 🙂
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Thank you, I’m glad that you enjoyed it. 🙂
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