[Write the Story] A Story Pulled From Today’s Headline and Rewritten

Prompt: A Story Pulled From Today’s Headlines and Rewritten

Words: boxer, cherry blossom, magic, implement, artwork, safety, chime, chain link, towel, ingredient

Story

Search for Alien Life Leads to Finding Water…

“But what kind of aliens are we talking about?” Perry demanded, wiping sweat from a balding head with a towel. “You better have more than artwork, too. Water’s great and all but come on. With dips in sales we need better.”

Lane sighed. “For the safety of everyone involved, we stuck with the scientific ingredients for life. Water in the atmosphere and the like. The pictures of aliens dressed like boxers are cliché now.”

“But I’m not feeling the magic, Lane.” Perry dismounted the exercise bike as carefully as if he climbed a chain link fence. “This feel smore like a cherry blossom puff piece.”

Before Lane could defend the piece any further, Perry’s phone chimed. “What? Oh, yes sir. You have? It is? We do? We can! It’ll be taken care of, sir.” He hung up the phone and narrowed his eyes at Lane. “Word from on high. Rework the story. Play down the water angle. Play up the aliens.”

“Didn’t we just talk about this?”

“But not for the reasons we discussed. Apparently, the Water Wars have begun. Finding off-planet water means so much more.”

“And now we’re implements of an intergalactic conspiracy? How do you want me to play it? In search of water, scientists discover alien life?”

“Works for me.”

Word Count: 222

Written: 11/24/18

Tags: fiction, flash fiction, headlines, Piccadilly, Write the Story