Frankie and Slim

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Wednesday, July 06, 2022

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY - 07-06-2022

This month, the prompts are being provided by Hilary Melton-Butcher and are being posted by Elephant's Child.

INCARCERATION by Granny Annie

Sheriff McGraw was shocked by the hurley-burley taking place in the jail. He took out his notepad and began writing down the names he could remember. The prisoners had been confined for a few days and had been well behaved. Now their sonorous voices caused the sheriff to call for backup from his deputies. McGraw could see that one of the inmates held a trenchant blade and emitted a crazed cackling sound. These jailbirds were all throwing their left-over semolina pasta all over the cells in protest of the county's failure to keep them nourished. Meals of pasta and porridge were not enough. They were scraping their blue tin cups across the gird of the spaced bars as the atmosphere became more threatening.

The exhausted Sheriff gave up on his deputies arriving in time. He exited the jail, locking the building behind him. McGraw left the wild incarcerated maniacs to their own devices.


 

5 comments:

  1. Now that was a scary food fight. He was out numbered so better to wait for help to arrive.

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  2. A brilliant - and very different use of the prompts. Huge smiles from here - while being grateful I am not there.

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  3. A day in jail.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  4. A permanent diet of porridge and pasta would send me crazy too. Nicely done with the words.

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