Greetings! And here’s another installment of the Write Anything blog’s weekly challenge – [Fiction] Friday. We’re supposed to write about…
A Stolen Conversation
Her heart hammered in her chest as she ducked around a corner, into an alley, trying to catch her breath and stay out of sight while she agonized over her escape route. She couldn’t believe she’d gotten herself into this situation!
I’m not cut out for this espionage kinda crap! she cursed inside her head.
As exciting as the idea sounded at first, now that she was in the middle of it, it was more than she could handle. But they DID make it sound pretty simple, focusing more on achieving the goal in less about how life-threatening it would be.
That was the point. If I die, no sweat off their backs and their asses are covered. I’m the one that’s in deep shit now!
Her breathing down to a managable level, she peered around the corner only to jump back at the bullet that ricocheted off the brick wall she hid behind.
Fuck!
She followed the wall in the opposite direction, clutching the digital recorder in her pocket. At the end of the alley the chain link fence seemed to mock her, freedom just on the other side of that barrier.
I’m fucking forty years old! How the hell am I going to scale that thing?
A black sedan pulled up at the entrance of the alley blocking her only escape and four men stepped out looking none too happy and all about putting her in the hospital…or worse.
It’s do or die, baby!
She turned to face the insurmountable chain fence to see another car pull up on the freedom side, now blocking her way. A sigh of relief gushed out of her when she recognized the government officials who had given her this damned assignment. The men in the black sedan backed down and disappeared into their vehicle, speeding away.
“Did you get it?” Agent Sommers asked, his sunglasses firmly in place and hiding his eyes. Though she had wondered once before, she couldn’t care less if she ever saw his eyes. She wanted out of this.
“Yes, I got it.” She closed her eyes and put her hand into her pocket, touching the digital recorder again, holding the stolen conversation she’d captured. This was the key to her freedom, the final part of her end of the deal. It was over. When she opened her eyes, her stomach churned in fear at the smile on his face. She wasn’t going to live through this after all, was she?
Oops!!! That’s all five minutes allowed me! Sorry I couldn’t finish it!
That’s my two pence…
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I’m a slacker! Well, as it pertains to this weekly challenge I keep missing out on. I’ve been pretty darn busy with hypnotherapy, reading up on being a better writer, and pursuing my dreams. STILL waiting for my revisions for ETERNAL CONQUEST to come in and, sadly, it sounds like my editor is writing up a LOT of mistakes. Just when you think you’ve ‘nailed” it, you find out differently. GRRRRRRR! Oh, and I spent a little time playing Everquest 2 while recovering from a bout of the flu. >.<
I LOVE technology! It’s made my life so much easier as a writer…among other things. I remember the days of writing my novels on yellow, lined legal pads or typewriter (yes, I know, I’m dating myself) and then came the awesome personal computer: My first being a Tandy 1000. Sure, it was DOS based and monochrome, but HOLY COW, no more white-out or retyping a page!
