Friday Fictioneers – Hero

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas

I’m a hero, me. They oughta give me a bleedin’ medal for what I done, mate; saved the country, din’t I? Sat on me arse for fourteen months, never going out, never letting any bugger in; it was hard, I can tell you; but I stuck it out, ‘cause that’s what an Englishman does.

Fourteen months! That was my war. Double vaccinated, I am. Stopped the virus in its tracks, so we did. So where’s me bleedin’ medal now, and me war pension from a grateful nation?

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

59 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Hero”

  2. So true. Some people actually think that they must be compensated for doing this great service.
    We’ll need so many medals to reward all such vaccinated “soldiers” of the world 🙂

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  13. I like the lingo you used in this, Neil. I think those medals need to be mass-produced, or maybe a coin, something to carry around like a good luck charm against the next war.

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