DRABBLE!
I stole this idea blatently from ericjamesstone. He's got a (brilliant and hilarious) short story on the back of his business cards, and I wanted to do the same thing for mine.
Of course, coming up with an original drabble is tough. So I decided to poke through my old ones and see if I couldn't modify one enough so that it wasn't fandom-specific. And I think I succeeded. Try this on for size:
Everyone has a line they won't cross. Working at the place we not-so-jokingly call "Satan's Solicitors," you'll encounter that line, eventually. You can't avoid it. I've got no qualms about getting terrible people out of big trouble; that's what lawyers do, though usually on a smaller scale than ours. Until now.
My line got crossed, and I rebelled. But you know what? Even at this moment, I don't know if they were testing me--or whether I passed or failed. They gave me the office, the money, and the partnership I'd always coveted. Reward? Or punishment?
I'll probably never know.
Does this hang together okay? I know who I'm referring to here. Do you? And if you do, does it matter, or am I vague enough as to the particulars?
And yes, it's exactly a hundred words. What do you take me for?
Of course, coming up with an original drabble is tough. So I decided to poke through my old ones and see if I couldn't modify one enough so that it wasn't fandom-specific. And I think I succeeded. Try this on for size:
Everyone has a line they won't cross. Working at the place we not-so-jokingly call "Satan's Solicitors," you'll encounter that line, eventually. You can't avoid it. I've got no qualms about getting terrible people out of big trouble; that's what lawyers do, though usually on a smaller scale than ours. Until now.
My line got crossed, and I rebelled. But you know what? Even at this moment, I don't know if they were testing me--or whether I passed or failed. They gave me the office, the money, and the partnership I'd always coveted. Reward? Or punishment?
I'll probably never know.
Does this hang together okay? I know who I'm referring to here. Do you? And if you do, does it matter, or am I vague enough as to the particulars?
And yes, it's exactly a hundred words. What do you take me for?