Flash Fiction: Desire

by
 raymond alexander kukkee

"You'll not be leaving whilst breathing"  the voice said.  Heavy breathing echoed in the empty white  galley, a harsh, rattling fight for air.

"Nothing to say?" 

" It's disgusting," he gasped,  "... is it the only way,....the gagging, the choking? "

"It's  final, you chose,  nobody cares".

 Stale air whistled as it was exhaled.

"You made  choices, your desire for evil, now pay"  the voice said,  "That's hardball".

 "You'll not be leaving with air in that sick rack you call a body.  Now be a man."

 The  sickening rattle ceased, quieting the heaving galley with silence and salt water.

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'Desire'  -with a word count of  99,  was inspired by Red's  M3 Flash Fiction Challenge. The word limit was 100 words.

Is that Incoming I hear?

Harvest time Choices

Here at Incoming Bytes  we were optimistically  hoping to resist temptation.  I wanted to digress enough to stick with interesting stuff --and thus be able to ignore following, studying and dissecting the ONTARIO election that just resulted in another Liberal minority anyway.  
My new mantra for this  Ontario election was:
 "Vote but ignore. .... Vote but ignore...."Hold-'yer-nose'-and vote" (in counter-rythm) . ......and Vote-but-ignore....." 

Catchy beat, isn't it? 


To start off with, every farmer knows it was the wrong time for an election, but let us not rant.

Our astute readers also recognize bad timing, bad choices, political lies, attack-dog ads,  eternal promises , the politics of fear -- and the fraternal and ridiculous  hee-haw-see-saw contest of political  "parties"......period.

Therefore, as a service to our readers, WE happily cut through all of that "flung dung" and ignored it. Tomatoes and carrots are heaps more interesting.
 The fact is, as usual, nothing changed on the political landscape.  Thinking about it, in rural Ontario, there are always more important things to do anyway.

  It's harvest time, a process offering genuine rewards to those who put effort into it , and  there are also more than enough perky diabolical diddlers , deceivers,  and  untruthful whiners at hand already without adding blathering striped politicians to the intense mix. 
So--- hold an election at harvest time, will 'ya??   Well, okay, it's all about harvest-time choices  then...
Don't get me wrong,--- this is serious business, at harvest time  difficult and complex issues can arise too.  Mind-boggling and sterling  choices must be made in good conscience, --such as "which healthy organic vegetables shall we choose to dine upon this evening? 

Keeping that in mind,
  "On October 6th,we voted for vegetables ". 

That may be a more revealing statement than some may care to admit.

I feel better already.




That's my story and I'm sticking to it.