Friday August 19th, 2022

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose about: repercussions.

2 comments:

Greg said...

These prompts still feel as though they have a connection that you've not revealed yet, and they are slightly ominous. As I'm a little late writing to this one I've seen tomorrow's as well and that at least has a note of optimism to it. But what are these repercussions? Have you been press-ganged into the local fire brigade because they have no idea that you're behind all the recent assassination-through-fire events?

Repercussions
Fennella shifted, slightly uncomfortably, in what had been Dr. Fraud's favourite office chair, and tapped a pen against one of the desk ornaments thoughtfully.
"Dr Doestoomuch," she said, "the thing with doing too much is... there will be repercussions that you can't control."
The ornament on the desk sighed despairingly and popped, throwing springs and tiny pieces of plastic all over the desk, while Dr Doestoomuch stared at the ceiling.
"Like narcolepsy," he said, "or do you mean that I'll keep hearing drums and cymbals clashing in the night?"

Marc said...

Greg - "fire events" is a lovely turn of phrase compared to... uh, never mind.

Ah, nice to get back to the good doctors. And I do appreciate the twist on the prompt in your final line :)