Not Just Another Job

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PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson

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Elizabeth left the dorm room letting her eyes adjust to the daylight past the bicycle and gate. At thirty, it was a stretch for her to play the role of a co-ed at the university, but that’s what it took this time.

She’d been a professional for ten years. This was the first job where she felt anxious. She took a few steps forward and forced down her emotions. She had to treat it like any other contract.

Except it wasn’t just another hit. Somewhere on campus was the man who had killed her sister. She would make him pay.

It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 13 December 2024 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as a prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

I very, very loosely adapted my WIP for this entry. My actual story is set in Las Vegas in 1953 and involves a private detective, gangsters, showgirls, and casinos. However it is still essentially about a woman with a particular set of skills searching for her sister’s killer.

To read the other stories based on the prompt, visit inlinkz.

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Promotional image for “Shoot the Devil 3: Militia of Martyrs”

My short story “The Book of Names” is now available in the anthology Shoot the Devil 3: Martyr’s Militia. It’s a collection of tales chronicling the ages old battle of good vs. evil, mainly from a Christian perspective.

My story is a little more circumspect, although it does lean heavily on demonology and how the final utterance of one Name will defeat all evil. I hope some of you pick up a copy and have a read. Thanks.

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