With only my end of year review to attend to today, I’ve nothing prepared, its always the same old shit; “you’re doing well, sometimes you should think before you speak, some people may think of you as a disruptor, etc Blah blah”, so I get a high ‘3’ nearly a ‘2’ which means nothing, the idea being i’ll try harder for the extra £300 between a 2 and 3 next year, when to be honest I’ve made more money selling shit on e-bay than working extra hard for this shower. So I thought i’d try and get in early and compose something before starting work today for Rochelle and the FF crew. The idea? 100 words based on the picture, literally anything goes, so shower cap on, lets go.
On My Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
The lights at the border checkpoint of the country with a peculiar foreboding alphabet shone in the darkness, a queue of vehicles stretched far back into that land, diesel fumes hung in the mizzle, pierced by muffled percussive gunshots, punctuated by sporadic horns.
Time was against those who left it till the last minutes; no one actually believed it would happen.
“Not until Hell freezes over”
An Uncertain Fate awaited them
In the car Children looked up, their faces pale in the soft glow from their phones.
Without fuss but with an echoless Clang the Gates Closed and a terminal quiet descended.
There we go, 100 words on the end of days, somewhere, sorry its so bleak but … Trump, Putin, etc.
The Count Of North Clifton 
Sombre, but appropriate for our times
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very much so, sadly
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Dear Shrawley, the early bird,
In the car Children looked up, their faces pale in the soft glow from their phones.
That line hit me particularly hard. Ominous and well told. Shivers.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle, we live in ominous times
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Excellent story telling!
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thanks, beats work!
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Your last sentence, so ominous!!!!!!!
About your work review, I had one every year for 25 years with my govt job and hated every one. Despite me being the same person, they ranged on a continuum of star employee to worst employee, wholly dependent on the perspective and agenda of the supervisor who gave them.
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I was asked today if I regretted anything id done this year, which I said no, I was asked if id have done anything different I said no, it’s all bullshit. Im an expert and how dare they question me,
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I hated reviews. It was always based on my personality, not my work.
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Wonderful and descriptive story-telling, Sir Shrawls. Seems you par particularly sharp early in the A.M.
Reviews are bullshit. As if they will make a damn difference in how one works.
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Hi Dale thanks for your comments, review went fine, but was complete bullshit! I’ll have to get up early on a Wednesday every day, I thought about this one in the shower
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They almost always are, aren’t they?
And yep. Methinks you should! 😉
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Great story. Foreboding.
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OH, Wow! The words you chose: mizzle, echoless clang. And the line “hell freezes over.” My Grandmother and mother used to say that. What a wonderful tale you’ve woven in so few words.
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Wow! thanks you so much Alicia, yep Hell freezes over is an old phrase for sure, glad you liked it, we get a lot of muzzle where I live!
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Sobering write.
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Thanks, I’m much more fun in real life!! Not sure where some of this stuff comes from.
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Ominous. It’s too easy to see reality following this slice of fiction.
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Not too sure if it is fiction… thanks for your thoughts. Its all a bit of an offing nightmare at the moment
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