“Heinous. So proud of our great military. Slam dunk. Goodbye slime ball.”
He clicked some missiles.
Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here.
Neil MacDonald Author 
Gosh I hope this one doesn’t come true but you’ve captured someone here with a lovely little tweet.
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I wonder who that could be? Thanks, Irene
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Brief and very much to the point. It says all that it needs to!
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Thanks, Edith. 16 words. I was quite pleased
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So you should be, Neil!
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Succinct view of our happy little planet.
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Thanks, mate
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Short and sour. Oh dear.
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Thanks, Jilly
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Gosh – that was cleverly done!
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Thanks so much, Susan
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Heh. I’m sure he’s given “The Order” many a time, but the military pretends not to hear him. Meanwhile, in Yemen…
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Or Boston
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Dear Neil,
Powerful and to the point in so few words. Take 70 words out of petty cash. Well done
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle. Some people are easy to lampoon
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Let’s hope that some of the journalists at CNN, NY Times and Washington Post were in the field when the missiles struck…
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I can make it so if you like
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Are you going to cause some havoc so all of the reporters show up at your door?
If he-who-shall-remain-nameless has an enemies list, and i bet he does, the “mainstream media” would be at the very top….
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It’s my world. I can make anything happen
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Hoping for them to witness it or die reporting it? I’m confused.
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I’m hoping they live – “The-one-who-can’t-be-named” hates “mainstream” media and I’m sure CNN, NY Times and Washington Post top his enemies list. he has said it many times how much he hates them and would destroy them if possible. So if he flippantly goes launching missiles, my guess is they would be his first target….
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I’m glad to understand where you were coming from. Thanks for the reply.
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I’d laugh if this wasn’t an actual possibility. Donald if you are reading this please don’t get any ideas.
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It happened last weekend
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Hoping Donald will put his toys away and learn to play nice with the other children now. Chilling to be honest, Neil
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Chilling was what I was aiming for. Thanks, Lynn
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My pleasure Neil
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Written in the style of an over-enthusiastic twitterer.
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You spotted my mentor for thiis piece!
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You capture the style nicely.
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The tweet or the missiles?
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Oh, my! You captured what we wake up to every morning. What the h*%$ has he done while we were sleeping?
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We wake up to it too
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A sad state of affairs, for sure.
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Succinct and straight to the deadly point. Well done, sir.
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Thanks, Dale
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Reality sucks.
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But it provides a rich vein for comedy
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Succinct and on target.
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Thanks, Sascha
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16 words – but oh so evocative. I never thought the office could be demeaned in this way, (and so often) and wonder if it can ever recover any of its former gravitas. Well done. Bank your word credit – it’s always worth hearing them.
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Thanks for that compliment, Sandra
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Short and deadly.
Cutting in its brevity Neil
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Thanks, Laurie. I wasn’t sure whether the brevity would work
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It absolutely does!
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Wonder who you were taking off here? 🙂
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No clue. A completely fictitious character?
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You even managed to copy his twitter style. That’s quite an accomplishment. I think I would have to slam my head into the wall a bunch of times first to duplicate it.
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Yup. My head still aches
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You captured his attitude nicely.
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What? Whose? He’s just a fictional character isn’t he?
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So much crammed into 16 words. Great job.
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Thanks, Lisa, He’s a man of action
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I guess, for some people life’s charm lies in climbing up the ‘infamous’ ladder.
Brilliant, Neil.
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Thanks so much. I think for some people, it’s beating the other guy
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Short and definitely not sweet, and hopefully not prescient either. Well executed and full of frightening possibility.
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Thanks, Sarah Ann. It doesn’t take any prescience. It’s not even fiction really. You couldn’t make this stuff up
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Ha ha ha, hope this madness turns out to be as short as this story. 16 words! Take a bow.
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Only four of the words are mine
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That captures it. What more needs saying?
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Thank you Michael. I got to the end and thought “now what do I do?”
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You stop. It’s vital to stop at the right moment.
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It’s one ting to tell a story in so few words, quite another for your readers to understand and even know the characters. Well done.
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Thanks, Dawn. I had help from a comic genius
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It is scary how real this is. And how easily he clicks on those missiles as if it is some video game. Impressive word count, Neil!
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Thanks, Fatima. Rochelle says I can have another 70 words next week
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So cleverly done, so succinct. Feels like good satire to me. Well done.
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Thanks so much
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A scary reminder of what a few clicks can do.
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Let’s hope he runs out of credits before then
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Well done.
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Thanks so much
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Great story, fun to read and it put a silly nervous smile on my face!! And 85 words under the limit, I am truly impressed!
Now, let’s hope it stays fiction! 😉
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Thanks, Rachel
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Very “now”, very accurate and as others have said, very scary…
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Thanks. Sometmes I write horror
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Frightening because it is so possible.
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Thanks, Susan. Perhaps if we’re all nice to him, he won’t do it
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