This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – SHIFT
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Night Shift
I hate this shift.
When the alarm sounds at 2.15 a.m. I rise immediately, shower quickly, dress and leave, because I report for work at 3 o’clock, and to be late is unacceptable.
With the rest of the team, I am given my instructions, which are basically the same every time; only the details are different but, as they say, the devil is in the detail.
With meticulous care, I put on my uniform.
The team is well-drilled, well-organised, so our departure time varies, depending on our destination, to ensure that we always arrive at 3.55.
I breathe deeply and, at precisely 4 a.m., I kick in the door.
Sound Bite Fiction 
Nicely set up, CE, then that brutal ending – fitting for the current occupants in power, who will snakily sell it to their thug-minded voters as yet another “kind and loving” way to deal with things.
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Thanks, Ford, this is aimed directly at the psychopaths in Downing Street.
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It didn’t go unnoticed, CE. Psychopaths is an apt term for them.
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Sounds like rather than in the details, the devil is in the Home Office? You could always try fences over there, I hear they’re quite popular among a certain segment.
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Thanks, Michael. Fascism is on the rise again, in France and the UK.
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(The like is for the reply, not what’s happening over there and over here)
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An uncharacteristically “intense” Six, C.E. I like it!
“… but, as they say, the devil is in the detail.” The red light of those words are flashing like a “No Vacancy” sign at a seedy, roadside motel.
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Laughing.
Thanks, Denise, I do ‘intense’ occasionally!
Great comment too.
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A force for good or a force for ill? I’m guessing the latter, but I suppose it depends which side you’re on. Great Six!
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Thanks, Chris.
For those of us who don’t support Westminster’s increasingly fascist regime with regard to immigration, it is not at all good.
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Indeed, they are precise. As one friend whose family member was in the mafia said, when they raided the whole family, at their various locations, they were quite precise in going into each house at the exact same time. (No, she didn’t know where the family member was, and was let go after questioning, she had cut off contact years before in disgust at the antics.)
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Also the approach of fascist and totalitarian governments everywhere, Mimi.
Thank you for your comment
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You had me on this one. I thought the shift was at a bakery or food processing plant. Then I read that last line. Brilliant writting
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Thanks, Hugh, I am happy as a parrot with ‘Brilliant writing’
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Kafka, eat your heart out. ceayr has succeeded you. 🙂
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Oh Doug, I am embarrassed to be mentioned in the same universe as the great man
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Don’t be. Rumour has it that he put his pants on one leg at a time, just like you and me. 😉
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This begs for a fulfillment of What Happens Next.
For some reason, I thought of a brute squad for a totalitarian government…awfully dark!
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Spot on, Liz.
This is the UK under the Tories’ latest Immigration Bill.
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Ooo, that’s intriguing! Is it bad that my first thought of someone getting up for a 3 am shift was that they made doughnuts at a bakery…? Great 6!
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Laughing.
Nah, doughnuts are good!
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This made me think of our immigration dawn raids.
You convey such a cold sense of complete and automatic obedience, devoid of humanity.
The only emotion: ‘I hate this shift.’
‘…meticulous attention’ – chilling!
It’s a great piece of writing..
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Thanks, Jenne.
Happily in Scotland the people are already standing up to these vile Westminster-imposed travesties, reminiscent of Nazi Germany and other police states
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That routine task sounds ominous. Indeed, “the devil is in the detail”.
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Ominous indeed, Frank, for the person behind the door…
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Oh wow! A sting operation? Or maybe criminals in the act themselves. Wonderful! 🙂
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Or Britain’s Immigration authorities acting like the Nazis they are becoming
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Great use of the cue. Good solid six.
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Thanks, UP
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A rebellion brewing? Robotic conformity is a most difficult ‘addiction’ to break!
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Interestingly, Susan, you read something that I did not intentionally write.
Thank you, I love different interpretations!
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