Short story challenge
Mbr's challenge:
Title: Greatest Mistake in Heaven
Word: platypus
Looking at it with a cocked eye, Philly couldn’t help but have the most confused look in his life, as the conveyor belt continued rolling along with things here and there.
He was confused, he was afraid, he must have done something wrong.
The thing, the furry mammal with the duck’s flat beak, looked at him with confused puppy eyes, the animal’s flat tail trying to wag as if it was a dog, a dog whose tail had just been flattened by a big truck’s tire.
It was cute, in a way, but quite confusing.
The webbed toes wiggled as the animal tried to find ground, or maybe water, or whatever it was supposed to be.
Scared that he’d lose his job, since this wasn’t the first time Philly screwed up a product, he grabbed the freakish animal and stuffed it in his meal cooler bag, and hid it in his locker until the whistle of the industry blew their release.
Walking out, afraid to be stopped at any time, Philly quickened his pace as his mind raced along, probably at a much faster speed than what his quick walk was doing.
He couldn’t let people find out, Jehovah would be pissed off if he found out he wasted organic material making mistakes again, even the angel managers would frown at his mistake.
Stopping in front of the storm drain, Philly grabbed the creature out and looked at it again.
“Platypus.” He cursed in disgust in his native tongue, and flung the creature down the storm drain.
The creature will eventually be led onto earth’s surface by the twist and maze of pipes, where hopefully, God will just think that he forgot about it and was something that was in his design, somehow.
Title: Greatest Mistake in Heaven
Word: platypus
Looking at it with a cocked eye, Philly couldn’t help but have the most confused look in his life, as the conveyor belt continued rolling along with things here and there.
He was confused, he was afraid, he must have done something wrong.
The thing, the furry mammal with the duck’s flat beak, looked at him with confused puppy eyes, the animal’s flat tail trying to wag as if it was a dog, a dog whose tail had just been flattened by a big truck’s tire.
It was cute, in a way, but quite confusing.
The webbed toes wiggled as the animal tried to find ground, or maybe water, or whatever it was supposed to be.
Scared that he’d lose his job, since this wasn’t the first time Philly screwed up a product, he grabbed the freakish animal and stuffed it in his meal cooler bag, and hid it in his locker until the whistle of the industry blew their release.
Walking out, afraid to be stopped at any time, Philly quickened his pace as his mind raced along, probably at a much faster speed than what his quick walk was doing.
He couldn’t let people find out, Jehovah would be pissed off if he found out he wasted organic material making mistakes again, even the angel managers would frown at his mistake.
Stopping in front of the storm drain, Philly grabbed the creature out and looked at it again.
“Platypus.” He cursed in disgust in his native tongue, and flung the creature down the storm drain.
The creature will eventually be led onto earth’s surface by the twist and maze of pipes, where hopefully, God will just think that he forgot about it and was something that was in his design, somehow.