Yesterday & Today: 16th July

One of those happy accidents yesterday.

A few years ago I went through a short phase of writing 100-word flash fiction stories. There was one I remembered but, when I tried to find it on my computer about a month ago, I came up empty handed. I was sorting and packing my notebooks yesterday when, suddenly, there it was, hiding in a notebook bizarrely titled ‘French’… But that’s another matter altogether.

Anyway, see below

The rest of the day went somewhat in reverse in that I did a little work on ‘Z’ and no reading of NC:5.

With that in mind, perhaps unless I have anything concrete, I’ll refrain from trying to project what the day holds. You’ll have picked up the main themes by now anyway. So, today? I guess I’ll find out tomorrow, as it were…

And now that ‘lost’ story. It’s untitled.

No-one was smiling. Knocking-off time on a Friday afternoon: kids there to meet fathers, the weekend ahead; Jack in the foreground, ready to cycle all the way to Ongar to meet his lass.

But no-one was smiling.

I’d heard rumours about the accident as I made my way along the road from the Main Gate, overheard fragments of conversations, talk about the Finishing Shop. Someone had slipped or tripped or something. They had stopped the machines to extricate the poor devil, called the ambulance – which had taken an age to arrive. By then it was all too late.

Considering I work in the Finishing Shop, I’m not sure how I managed to miss all the commotion. I’d probably been taking the week’s production figures up to the office, got chatting to that saucy Marjorie! Still, here we are, weekend to look forward to.

On the road outside the Main gate no-one is smiling. In fact, they’re all looking at my way.

And then I realise; the poor devil was me.

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