promise is a promise


promise is a promise
by
steve coel


1]

today.
doorway.
long corridor.

2]
place used to be arcade.
not now.
shops are long gone, roof caved in, steel mesh windows ripped out by scrappies, walls decorated courtesy of local youth.
no charge.

3]
nice touch that.

4]
so you could say it's quiet round this way now there's nothing left to nick.

5]
council says places like this is going to be developed.
we'll see.

6]
meantime, it's where i comes to spend my days, to finish jobs i been doing during the night.

7]
i'll have finished in about six months anyways.

8]
do what the fuck they wants then.
all of them.

9]
and if they ever finds what i been hidin' round here won't be any come back.

10]
promise is a promise.

promise is a promise [ Draft ], from Tin Collector [ A Series of Micro Flash Fictions ] by Steve Coel, 2015.




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