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Operation Pantomime Horse
“Turn around!”
“Shut up!!
“How do you expect
to get the photos we need if you won’t...”
“Shut up and
give me the camera!”
“You don’t know
how to use it, that’s why they sent me on this mission. That’s why...ouch!”
“Got it. Now
pull your arms in. I said don’t wear that white shirt. ‘It’ll make us
conspicuous’ I said, but would you listen?”
“Listen? Never
mind listen, I can hardly breathe in here. Did you have garlic for dinner last
night?”
“Shhhh! The
policeman at the gate’s looking at us. Have you got your legs dangling again?”
“Stop moaning, I
was getting cramp pulling them up like that...”
“That’s what the
harness is for Idiot! Oh shit! He’s coming over! What are you doing? Put that
back this instant!”
“No! I’m the one
with weapons training. You’re just the legs. So get ready to run!”
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@nickjohns999
This story was written for Angela Goff's Visual Dare - Third Eye
great dialogue and I loved the last line - can sort of imagine them scarpering but then falling over!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sarah!
ReplyDeleteLove how the personalities come through the dialogue - without tags, without setting. Great momentum. Loved this!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Angela It rather turned into a bit of an Abbott & Costello sketch, but hey ho!
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