PHOTO
PROMPT © Ted
Strutz
The
End of Innocence
“Michael,
I swear, I left the portal but a moment...”
“That was sufficient. He diverted
the latest group of new arrivals.”
“How? They would have realised they
weren't going up, have felt the rise in temperature, if nothing else,
as they descended...”
“Look at the footage here. The
stairway was reversed. They were deceived. He was ever the Master of
Lies and deceit.”
“They are innocents, pure of heart,
unsuited to his purposes, unlike his usual, vile, twisted, recruits.
What use are they?”
“The Enemy needs them for his pit;
the pit needs bait dogs.”
(100 Words)
This story was written to the photo
prompt above for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields' Friday Fictioneers. Check
out other great takes on the prompt at
https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/dd413a8e4d4f41b085dd131d822107be
