PHOTO PROMPT © Miles Rost
My being is rife with addictions and transience. The question of chicken and egg, which came first, is anyone’s guess. At this point it doesn’t matter.
Employers are desperate for workers; often anyone will do. Even someone like me. I’m hired as locksmith, maintenance, and hotel security; room and board included. I’ve picked up a couple of skills along the way. I wear blue overalls with corporate logo.
As a sex addict, living in the hotel is smorgasbord. It’s easy pickins for the most part. Those who resist take a little more effort. The hotel shuttle van makes clean-up easy.
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Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the illuminating host of Friday Fictioneers.
Tao Talk 
Ah, the fox has been left to guard the henhouse again, I see. You’ve got me wondering what’s spinning in those machines!
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Now you have me wondering also! Thanks for reading and your comment.
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Oh that is dark
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Thanks, Neil!
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A dark story indeed.
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Thank you, Michael. Not sure why the image struck me that way. Actually something happened earlier this week that sparked a comment by a friend that sparked the story.
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Oh-Em-Gee!
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:)
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Interesting story, especially based on the photo prompt!
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Thanks, Christian!
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A hotel perv on the loose.
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Oh my! What a dark story.
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Thanks, Sadje. My mind goes to dark places sometimes.
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You’re welcome! It’s a part of life so a writer has to bring that into their writing too.
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<3
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Reblogged this on lastrites24608.
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That took a turn I wasn’t expecting! Nicely done.
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Thanks, Iain!
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Seems we have a succubus on the prowl, nice one!
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Good name for it!
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Dear Lisa,
That’s all kinds of creepy. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, thanks much!
Shalom,
Lisa
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You’re welcome, Lisa. :D
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Ominous, yet true…a woman one street over was recently murdered by a building handyman hired as part of a prison release program. Her apartment was ransacked, but it’s not clear he really got anything valuable. He was in prison for robbery and assault…how about offering him a job cleaning the streets instead? (K)
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Oh no. EXACTLY, Kerfe.
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We are all mixed up all over the place.
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Being a sex addict is one thing… being a violent one, a total ‘nother…
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I think sex is just one of his addictions…
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It appears so…
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A job with benefits as far as he’s concerned.
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Good way of putting it, Keith.
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“Sex addict” is putting it lightly. The realism is the scary part. People like that can get a job like that with access and opportunity.
The egg came first. It was a mutation, evolution. It’s not a mystery. It’s science.
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Dang, that took a dark turn! Very well done.
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Thanks, Alicia!
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Scary to think of someone like that being a locksmith and security. Sounds like a Norman Bates in the making. Great story though.
-David
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Thanks, David. In my work as a juvenile probation officer I saw some things that still haunt me from those days.
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Um…WHAT?!?!
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Shocking to consider isn’t it.
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Oh wow wasn’t expecting that – good one! :)
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Thanks, AJ :)
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Thanks Lisa :)
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Why does this happen again and again? Very dark and creepy, especially from this pov.
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Good question, Gabi.
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he seems to be a jack of all trades that will survive and have fun even in the most unlikely places. :)
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Oh wow! Sinister!! Well done!!
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Sounds horrid. Nice one.
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Thanks, Brit!
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The only hotel in three states with a security guard. Spooky idea. No one is missing. They just checked out after doing their laundry.
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Bill you must be going to small town hotels. All of the big hotels have security! Yes, maybe it just seems sinister to the paranoid mind…
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Some security. :-)
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