Lamppost | A 100 Word Story

#516 Knight of Quasars (The Alleyway Tarot) | Pentober Practice #12

Today on Erica Drayton Writes, the Prompt is distance!
Write a 100 word story.
And tag me if you take up the challenge.

TRANSCRIPT

He stood beside a lamppost. The light casting his shadow across a cobblestone street. He wore a detectives hat and a knee-length trench coat, crumpled and frayed in all the right places. 

He pulled the cigarette he kept tucked behind one ear, ‘for emergencies,’ because this was an emergency. His mark was late. After tailing this guy for the past month it was a foregone conclusion that he would be crossing this street at exactly this time. But the time passed five minutes ago.

With a dangling cigarette in his mouth, he lit a match against the lamppost and waited.

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The Knight of Quasars is a bringer of something so big and heavy and far reaching that we won’t understand its impact until we feel it, and then it rings out beyond us. Be mindful of what you do, we don’t know just how far our actions go.

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