Michigan Avenue in Chicago
Walking down Michigan Avenue, Johnny remembered the meme, “Come to Chicago for the food, stay because you got murdered,” yet all he saw was another “hustle bustle” Monday morning in a big city.
Naturally he came prepared. This was mostly a vacation trip, but he did have one bit of business to attend to. There she was just ahead of him, about to cross the DuSable Bridge. It would be touchy in broad daylight, but with these crowds, he was confident he’d get away with it.
He slipped the small .22 out of his sleeve into his palm just as he caught up with her. He shoved the barrel into her back and fired, then kept walking. She collapsed against the bridge railing and then onto the sidewalk.
Another successful hit, this time on an NBC news exec. Now to lunch. He’d heard “The Purple Pig” had a great wine list.
Written for What Pegman Saw. The idea is to use the Google Maps photo prompt above to write a piece of flash fiction no more than 150 words long. My word count is exactly 150.
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Pegman sends you to Chicago, and all you can come up with is a lousy murder? Whatever happened to picking up a souvenir T-shirt?
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Hey. There’s fine dining afterward.
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Nothing tops off a murder like fine dining. Can I suggest the Whipped Burrata Cannoli? 😉
Gritty Monday hitman fun!
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Sympathy for the hit man. I like it. 😉
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OUCH! That was a good one.
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Thanks. Hopefully, Johnny’s target didn’t suffer too much. I pulled the place name from the Google maps map view, and decided on the victim’s occupation based on the proximity of NBC towers. Even the restaurant Johnny planned to visit afterward was on the map.
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Dear James,
Now that’s a creative, if not deadly, way to put Google maps to use. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Once I considered the high rate of gun deaths in the Windy City, the rest was easy. Thanks, Rochelle.
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