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Belos smiled. It had started with tinker-toys. His workshop held a machine that would take humankind to Mars. For a small man, his conception manifested into large moving parts and metal-tubed hexagons, then plugged its drive into the bright rectangle modeled on black hole energy.
Belos whistled as he walked to his front door. Kinzie greeted him with a martini, wearing a smile and a negligee. He’d tinkered with her mind until she was his ideal: luscious, obedient, and eager to please. Pharma lent polish to her perfection.
Kinzie served Belos lobster in a lace apron. Dessert was divorce papers.
[100 words]
Disclaimer: this story is 100% fiction and is not meant to suggest it is about any real person or persons or actual device that can plug into black hole energy to power vehicles.
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the tale-weaving host of Friday Fictioneers.
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Nice final line. By the way, you have a martini wearing a smile and a negligee
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Thank you, and thanks for noticing and letting me know 🙂
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You also have a lobster wearing a lace apron. Sorry, it’s the English teacher in me, and frankly the picture in my mind made me laugh :). I’m glad Belos got his come-uppance. Smug sort of so-and-so.
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LOL Linda, I think I’ll leave it that way then so others can also imagine it 🙂 Thanks for reading and your comment.
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I feel he may be compensating for something with his immense machines… nice story.
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Haha! Great comment. Thank you.
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Love your disclaimer. That would be an interesting martini. (K)
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🙂
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Not the final few words I expected! If I hadn’t read the footnote I’d be sure it was true!
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Glad I “gotcha” on the end. 🙂
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Just when the reader thought he had a great obedient wife & super scientific technological breakthrough work, you served the last line!!!
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lol! Thanks for reading and your comment, Anita.
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Dear Lisa,
It looks like Belos enhanced her out the door. 😉 Love the last line.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, yes indeed 🙂 Thank you.
Shalom,
Lisa
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Nice to know his mind-tinkering wasn’t as effective as he thought! Nicely written, Lisa!
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Exactly, Penny! Thank you very much 🙂
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Ha! Loved that, you’re a brilliant writer, I’m hoping Belos is in someway related to Bezos, with ideas of grandeur and money buying him anything he damn well wants. Good stuff
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Shrawl thank you so much. My lips are zipped on the name resemblance lol
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Standing ovations for Kitzie. Way to beat pharma and mind control. Maybe Belos finds a life lobster in his bed (with a lace apron).
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LMAO!!!!!!!
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divorce papers for dessert? some folks kill for that (pun intended) 🙂
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🙂 I’m sure it at least crossed Belos’ mind!
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I guess, all work and no play or appreciation for the support (wife and family) has consequences.
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You know, it’s probably the lack of appreciation that pushed her over the edge…
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Sounds like he enjoys tinkering with everything in his life, sometimes with less than optimal results!
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It’s an admirable trait for building space ships, but he needs to curb that impulse with his loved ones (not easy to do!)
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Oh, now there is a story with a future. Two, actually. As for desert, how sweet it is. Well done (again), Lisa.
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Bill thank you!
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What a wonderful future tale. Well done.
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Thank you, Mason 🙂
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I love all the comments.
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🙂
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He got his just desserts, didn’t he? Good one, Lisa.
pax,
dora
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LOL good way of putting it. Thanks, Dora.
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My pleasure.
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Dora is right. Just desserts, indeed. Great story.
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Thanks, Patrick (was on blogging break for month of Nov, hence late response!)
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