This is a unique flash fiction challenge where we provide
you with a new photo each week, and the first sentence of a story. Your challenge is to finish the
story using 100-150 words, not including the sentence provided. Don’t forget to use the opening
sentence…
This challenge runs from Monday to Sunday! Get
creative and have fun finishing the story!
Please include the photo with your bit of
flash and a link back to this post. Click on the link below and find the blue frog to add
your link so that others can enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!
Photo
credit: Barbara W. Beacham
Finish the story begins with: “The team employed the use of Nightshade to
get the information they wanted from their captive.”
THE
REPORT
“The team employed the use of
Nightshade to get the information they wanted from their captive.”
Alison
read the report that had popped up on her computer screen marked ‘Eyes Only’. She keyed in her log-in and password to gain
access to this rather troubling reading matter. Her boss, Vincent St. John, Head of the
Secret Service, had forwarded her a copy for her valued opinion.
She
laughed at that. ‘Valued opinion.’ He was such a smarmy character that she
cringed every time she met him with his Eton College accent, handlebar
moustache, a bowtie or a cravat at his neck and his very English tweed jacket
and trousers, with his polished brown brogue shoes, and Argyle socks peeping
over the top as he crossed his legs in that very unmanly fashion.
Alison
shuddered and brought her attention back to the computer screen. Highlighting various sentences she then
re-read her recommendations for disbanding that particular team.
He
could put that in his pipe and smoke it.
Word count: 150
Loved the last line Sally! Nicely done. And, the description of the boss, very well described as I could see it in my mind's eye. Thanks for writing again for the MFtS Challenge and be well... ^..^
ReplyDeleteThat is a kool take on this prompt.
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Go Alison! Nice job on using the prompt to create something with so much tension between people not even involved in the nightshade's use.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I love the description of this 'smarmy' character (love the word smarmy, too!). Well done.
ReplyDeleteThe boss seems to be 'smarmy'.. A different take. Like it.
ReplyDeleteLove the details bringing the swarmy boss to life and how you added one last detail in the clincher.
ReplyDeleteGreat line, "he could take that in his pipe and smoke it." Thoroughly enjoyed! Description of smarmy is perfection!
ReplyDeleteWell done..... by the time I finished your description of the boss, I loathed him. He shouldn't have asked her for her opinion. Great story!!
ReplyDeleteFantastic story and yes, I loved that last line too. It changed the whole story for me. Alison is one tough character and I like her!
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