[Write the Story] The Main Character Thinks He or She is About to Get Fired
Prompt: The Main Character Thinks He or She is About to Get Fired
Words: magazine, blow dryer, congeal, bluebell, cummerbund, wheelie bag, pastels, binding, science
Story
I knew something was up. I watched others go through the process. I figured my turn in the Wheelie Bag of Destiny was coming up. I mean, I know I don’t look like those models in a magazine, but I was no congealed cheeseburger either. I patiently wait my turn, enduring the bluebell cummerbund and all the pastels swirling my frame. I could do this. I was ready for the next step. I was. I just didn’t know if the Powers That Be felt the same way.
Those Powers had the, well, power to shatter my dreams. I know there’s a science – or maybe it is an art after all – to how they choose who stays and who goes. Maybe I didn’t have the binding qualifiers. Maybe I had some kind of flow. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
Then I felt the brush of heat, like a blow dryer on full blast. The heat rose as I felt myself sliding forward.
It was happening.
I was headed for my future as a glazed ceramic mug. No more dull lump of clay for me! Soon a shiny new future as a useful object with a purpose would be mine. Soon I’d bring warmth and joy to someone.
And all it would take was being fired.
Word Count: 212
Written: 4/23 & 25/ 18