“Well, are they ready?”
Captain Tucker fixed his superior officer with a steely gaze and gave a curt nod. “Better than ready, Colonel Middlesby. I don’t envy Jerry the battering he’ll be getting once my boys hit the cobbles.”
Colonel Middlesby enthusiastically shook Tucker’s hand. “Well done, old boy. Who’d have thought you could take the dregs of the glasshouse and turn them into an elite fighting force? Not that I ever doubted you!”
Middlesby pulled Tucker into a great bear hug. As his hands dropped lower on the other man’s back Tucker pulled away.
“I’ve told you, Stephen,” said Tucker, looking embarrassed. “I simply can’t. My wife…”
Two days later…
“God, Mary, I’m so terribly sorry.” Middlesby put his arm around the sobbing woman. “Who’d have thought a bunch of filthy convicts would turn on their officer and… and… the things they did to him… I’m so sorry. So very sorry.”
Forcing the words through gasping tears, the pale shivering woman managed to reply.
“You couldn’t have known, Colonel Middlesby. You were a great friend to my Thomas and I know if he was here now he’d…. If he was here now…”
Her body was shaken once more with anguished, gutwrenching sobbing.
Middlesby wrapped his arms around her.
“Don’t worry,” he said, “I’m here now, Mary. I’ll look after you. It’s what Tommy would have wanted.”
Like fat pink spiders his hands slowly crept down her back.
Iggy Smythe had to look up what a byline was in wikipedia.
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9 Responses to “ANY RAPPORT IN A STORM • by Iggy Smythe”
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October 26th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Last sentence is so sinister. Well done.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Wow, what a pig! Wonderful story though. Five out of five from me.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Creepy good.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Dense with innuendo. I had to read it twice to follow, but I’ve got it now. Creepy. The sparsity adds to the menace.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Well done, creepy and sinisters, as the others have mentioned.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one who didn’t know what a byline is!!!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Good read.
Cheers
Mark
October 27th, 2008 at 7:39 am
My skin is crawling. Well done.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Toe curling. Enjoyed.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Loved that last line!