Assorted Flash Fiction Writings
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What do you mean he escaped?!
Writing prompt: “What do you mean he escaped?!” The private gulped. “The human is gone, sir. He’s not in his cell.”
The commander went straight down to the human’s cell and barged in with the hapless private following him.
He looked at the other guards examining the cell and pulling the bedding off the bed frame, moving the books around and examining the ablutions corner, and no one could see the human or even how they could possibly have escaped.
The commander stood in the middle of the room and looked around. Bed frame with thin mattress on the ground near by. No human and no possible place to hide. The frame was just a few pipes welded together to support the mattress on cables.
Ablutions block was a shower with a tiny drain of 12 inches across to prevent the human from flooding the cell to try to escape. Toilet was even more secure as there was no possible way to fit anything into it’s mechanical workings to escape.
He looked at the walls, blank except for one wall with a inbuilt viewing screen. 2 inches of hardened glass wasn’t even scratched or broken, no escape that way. Besides there was nothing behind that wall but more wall.
The other wall was a book case with a small selection of books for the human to prevent him getting bored. Again, no escape as there was just more wall behind the wall.
The front wall had the viewing window, 2 inches of hardened glass where the guards could observe the human on their rounds of the cells from safety. Not broken or scratched.
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