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Prompt #988:
- Genre: action/adventure
- Word: industrious
- Action: painting the ceiling
Story (99 words, per Microsoft Word):
Clarkson was climbing the stepladder to paint the ceiling fan in his jungle shack. Suddenly two ragged soldiers from the local militia burst through the door, shouting manic threats, spraying bullets – but only at floor level. The ladder toppled, striking one unconscious. Clarkson fell, grabbed the ceiling fan — bloody damn ceiling hole! — and flung it in the other’s direction…
He hog-tied both, wrists to ankles, and finished his ceiling work: industriously repairing the new hole. Satisfied, he dragged the soldiers to his backyard, tied them to a tree, and awaited the arrival of sundown — and the cats.
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