Welcome to Flash Fiction Friday
Key Word - Specimen
Word Count - 214
Forbidden Words - Display, Alien, Glass
Spread the word (PLEASE) repost the prompt, invite friends and family to join in.
Let me know if you post and I'll try to add everyone's links.
Unlock, sweep, empty trash, clean toilets, rinse, curse,
repeat.
Fuck this job.
My pointless cursing and the jangle of too many keys are the
only sounds.
I started on the top floor where I could see city lights and
a glittering future and worked my way down through the bowels of middle
management, sightlines blocked by soot-covered brick and too much neon and down
further where the working grunts lived and then down deeper still where the
untouchables worked and dark secrets were kept.
The bins fill with paper, scraps of food, the fetid debris
of a thousand workers from a hundred worlds.
I dump each bin into the incinerator shaft and feel the heat billow up
until I hurry to seal the shaft again.
Sweep, dump, burn, wretch, cough, curse, repeat. Fuck this job. Almost done.
My scanner beeps, one more, a new room, the specimen! The
rumors were true, we got one, but, why keep the enemy here? And unsecured!
I move closer to replace the
missing lid but the creature wakes, screams and has me in her grasp. Her mouth
opens, so many teeth, but that tongue, that body, what bliss, and I give myself
over to the matings. Each seed an orgasm, each orgasm painful ecstasy. She/we
will survive forever.
My son started a sci-fi section at school and I’m writing a sci-fi
adjacent screenplay with a friend so I’m channeling those thoughts in to FFF
this week. I hope you ejoyed it. I did.
