Tin Collector
Nice Breakfast
Free Time
Teamwork
Heavenly Session
Nice Breakfast
Nice Breakfast is about a female door person.A threat, last heard in prison, has been directed at her.
She needs to find out if the threat is genuine and if
it is, deal with it quickly before things turn
really, really nasty.
Extract 1.
Makes a nice breakfast me, when I's
got the time. Keep it simple I says,
works for me every time.
Breakfast pretty much sums up the way
I approaches most things in life.
But I's still thinking, thinking hard actually,
about where I was when I made mistake
that might prove to be game changer.
Extract 2.
See; time inside can be time well spent
for some.
But first you's got to adapt and get used
to different ways of doing things and
getting things done.
There is, for example, a particular noise
which you either gets used to
or you don't.
Extract 3.
If you's been in you knows exactly
what I's been talking about.
Like a quiet scream is what it sounds like.
Like a huge cry for mercy is what it really is.
Only mercy don't ever come until it's all over.
Born in the Workhouse
Steve Coel
Free Time
Free Time is about institutions.It is about their quest[s] for uniformity in
everything they now represent and do.
Different individuals in this microflashfiction
stand out for many different reasons.
Extract.
...so this last time in the bank, spooked I was.
Uniforms see, everyone's in uniform, everyone.
I had cash, needed an account, open one like,
but seems I caught someones eye. Wrong someone.
Asked to leave I was, exchanged a few words was all.
Honest. So I loses me cash and bit more of my free time...
Born in the Workhouse
Steve Coel
Teamwork
Neighbourhoods, communities.Lived in, driven through or read about.
They are what they are, just like anywhere.
Different things to different people.
Extract 1.
...like I says, when they leaves their mark
people learns about it real quick like.
Go to if they wants to survive in this game.
They likes nice things, pretty girls, you
know the story. We all knows how that
one goes, they's still young.
Keeping it all legit is the hard part
and truth be they got that covered real good.
Has the gift they has, is why they'll stay
top of the pile for long time.
Round here at least.
Extract 2.
Still; someone is going to have quiet word,
straighten things out like. Because there's
always someone involved, somewhere along the line.
Always. And this ain't normal, but you tell me
what is...take that drink now I will.
heb deitl
Steve Coel
Heavenly Session
Four characters and their response to same threat.Extract 1.
...old guy in the corner
doghead we calls him
and doghead is what he likes being called
main reason being
he's always on about times
either had dogs
or raced them
something like that
anyways
was coming here
before I took over like
so could be different reason
always in the corner spot
always drinks steady like
for an old timer
not a problem...
Extract 2.
...watching it all go down
not seen it this bad before
somebody's going to win
somebody always does
but if you has winners
you has losers too
will always win me
always...
heb deitl
Steve Coel
Steve Coel
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