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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jan 15, 2023 16:00:01 GMT -6
This Week's Prompt: Butcher Length: Entries must be 100 words, no more, no less. Where: Post your entry below. Deadline: January 21st by midnight CST. Participant's Badges: HERE Weekly Challenge Rules:- No critiquing. Please refrain from giving feedback, as these challenges are to inspire creativity.
- Positive Enthusiasm is welcome! But save it for when Voting has started.
- CAN NOT vote for your own entry, and doing so will disqualify your submission.
- HAVE FUN!
Did you post an entry? Don't forget your Easy 10 Points!
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Post by RAVENEYE on Jan 17, 2023 14:08:37 GMT -6
Partners in Crime
Respectable people, alright. Upstanding townsfolk, all three. A reputation is a mighty thing. Fragile, too. A single word tossed the wrong direction and the glass pane will shatter, showing all prying eyes the filth lurking behind the shiny window. They couldn’t let it happen. Why, if anyone else found out, they’d be run out of town. Humiliated! Ruined!
The witness had to go.
She was to arrive at the bakery at ten, expecting a fat payment in exchange for silence. She’d be gravely disappointed. The candlestick maker doused the lamps. The baker stoked the oven. The butcher sharpened his knives.
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Post by FoxxGlove on Jan 17, 2023 14:48:42 GMT -6
Choice Cuts
Four decades and some change. The number of years that have passed since Abraham first drew breath and well over half of those spent honing his exceptional skill. Always prudent in planning and never ever rash in achievement.
He works the city streets with a refrigerated cart, peddling his delectable steaks, succulent roasts and mouthwatering hamburger patties packed in plastic-lined corrugated boxes. It is a most successful business. Abraham's meats are as tender as any to be found in a gourmet butcher shop.
And allegedly fresh?
"Heart still pumping blood at six o'clock this morning," says Abraham with a wink.
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Post by Mazulla on Jan 21, 2023 17:54:20 GMT -6
Porcus Pretiosus
Sketchy fellows, they were. Antsy, as if their own shadows might be after 'em. Leading the stubbornest ass pig that'd ever graced my steps.
"We'll double - no, triple your rate," they says, "And you can keep the pig, even. Just return to us what it ate. Understand?"
"What might I be lookin' for?" says I.
"You'll know it when you see it."
Wasn't one to argue after an offer of that caliber. And so, I got to work on butcherin' the sorry swine.
Opening its stomach, lo and behold, if I didn't find a diamond the size of my fist.
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jan 22, 2023 10:10:36 GMT -6
Poll added! Good luck all!
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jan 29, 2023 17:44:48 GMT -6
Congrats RAVENEYE! Have an extra 15 easy points for snagging that win! |
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Post by RAVENEYE on Jan 29, 2023 23:28:02 GMT -6
Whoa, cool. Didn't expect that in the slightest.
TY, folks!
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