Dangerous Currents
It’s Wednesday and you know what that means – Friday Fictioneers! Hosted as always by the talented Rochelle, a hundred or so of us attempt to write approximately a hundred words in response to a photo, which this week has been provided by fellow Fictioneerer Björn Rudberg.
To read all the other stories (more are added throughout the week), click on Bracken, the little blue guy below.
Copyright Björn Rudberg
Frederick looked down from the dizzying height of the cliff. Far below he could see a house nestled against the cliff face and further still his target, the beach. He checked his parachute, took a deep breath and jumped.
Exhilarated by the buffeting wind, he reached to open his chute. Without warning a gust hit him square on, throwing him towards the house. A brief, agonising moment of pain, then blackness.
Meanwhile, inside…
“Bill! Oi lost moi show! The picture’s gone all snowy!”
“Prob’ly another one o’ them damn fool base jumpers impaled on the aerial again. Oi’ll get the ladder.”
“Third one this week. Inconsiderate bastards.”
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These folks should seriously consider switching to satellite 🙂
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At least the dish would make a nice curvy landing spot 🙂
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Ouch. 🙂
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I’m sure he didn’t suffer. Long 😉
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such a pain with all these people dropping from the sky.. and imagine all the TV they miss just because of such folly.
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It can be really annoying when you miss your favourite TV because there’s a body on the roof.
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ha ha, can’t beat a bit of dark humour 😉
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I thought it was about time for another of these 🙂
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Maybe I will stick with cable after all…
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Good idea. That way the base jumpers just bounce off the roof and your favourite show continues regardless.
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Oh my gawd! Hahaha… how dare he?
This was a great piece, doc:)
Ellespeth
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Yeah, the nerve of the guy 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Dear Ali,
Oh dear! Dontcha just hate it when sky divers mess up your TV receptions by impaling themselves on your antenna? So messy and bothersome. You made me laugh.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
It can be quite annoying!
I’m glad you enjoyed it and had a laugh 🙂 (and thanks for mentioning “Bracken”!)
Ali
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We hope to reach the target but sometimes the target is too far.
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He certainly bit off a bit more than he could chew.
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The price to pay. 🙂
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And it was quite an expensive price, all things considered 🙂
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Ali, Hilarious dark humor. 😀 The nerve of those guys messing up the TV reception. I always love the dialect. You’d think the word would get around after so many being impaled. Another funny story springing from your great sense of humor. 😀 —Susan
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I get the impression they have a little pile of base jumper corpses hidden round the back 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it, I thought a bit of humour after last week’s rather sombre offering.
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Inconsiderate indeed – and well done. 🙂
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Thanks! The nerve of those base jumpers.
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Loved this. Really made me laugh.
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I’m glad, that was the plan 🙂
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Well that was certainly an original take on the prompt. 🙂
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I don’t know where base jumpers came from, but I thought after my story last week it was time for something lighter 🙂
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Ha!Gave a chuckle!
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Excellent, that was the idea 🙂
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Very out of the box. Great write.
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Thanks, the rather odd idea just entered my head. Hey, it could happen…
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inconsiderate bastards indeed! but wow, that’s a really painful way to die. lol great read 🙂
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Hopefully he didn’t suffer for long! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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This is funny!
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I’m glad you found it so 🙂
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Cover that guy up in aluminum foil, and I’ll bet it would help the reception!
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Hey yeah! They could have aluminium-covered dead base jumpers all over as signal boosters and stuff. They’re certainly missing a trick there.
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this would be a good advertisement for the cable people. I hear it now… get cable, save a life.
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Ha yes, that would be a hilarious advert! The accompanying picture to illustrate it might be a bit gruesome, though 🙂
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You are one sick b*stard! LOL too funny!!!!
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I’ll take that as a compliment 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Ha Ha Ha
Hey, don’t mess with my TV!
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If there’s one thing people shouldn’t mess with, it’s my TV 🙂
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LOL just love the accents! We had a similar thing happen with a pigeon a few years back. Poor thing flew straight into the arial and impaled itself 😦
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Oh no.
I hope my story didn’t give you flashbacks 😦
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Hilarious! And so messed up. Into every life some rain must fall, I suppose. 😉
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Rain and base jumpers, it seems 🙂
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I’m so sorry, but I just can’t stop laughing — this is such an usual and macabre twist on the prompt! I’m loving it!
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I must admit I had a chuckle after I wrote it 🙂 I like writing stuff that seems normal, and then something totally mad happens.
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It was absolutely brilliant — honestly, and to say this, I mean, I’ve just read a whack of the entries for the prompt – and this, yours, is by far, my fave!
Absolutely gorgeous!
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Thank you, that’s such a lovely thing to say 🙂
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
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It would never have happened to James Bond 007. You could say he ‘smershed’ into the house. Sorry!
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Hee hee 🙂
No, 007 would have bounced majestically off the chimney stack and continued his descent.
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Yes, and rescued a Bond Girl, as he descended, with a silly name like Pussy or Domino. When I was a teenager, my best friend at school and I used to pretend to be spies and Bond girls. I decided to call myself Bunny Lane! Oh boy.
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Hee hee, “Bunny Lane” is a brilliant Bond Girl name 🙂
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I just want to say I love this response chain about 007. Brilliant!
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I missed a trick there, not writing a spy story!
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Haha perhaps – it could have been from the point of view of a grizzled old agent, training yet another Bond-wannabe agent.
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Haha. I guess the hazards of living cliffside! And to interrupt the TV show to boot! Very funny.
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“Location, location, location” as they say.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Love the title and what how you used it. Very funny. I’m trying to work out where the house is based on the accents? I hope the base jumpers survive their impalement on the aerial. Perhaps it’s time they moved a little way along the cliff.
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I think the house is sort of SW England (my part of the world). Sadly I think the base jumpers are gonners 😦 You would think that they would have moved their launch point in light of all the jumpers who launch but never land!
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Such gruesome humor. I love it!
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I’m guessing he made quite a mess when he “landed” 🙂
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I think he “smooshed” rather than landed. Or maybe he “splatted.”
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Dear Draliman – Think of all the insurance policies you could sell to the owners for their roof and/or satellite systems. I think the inconsiderate dead jumpers should be ashamed of themselves and should have gone elsewhere to kill themselves. Well, maybe they can still get a couple of channels off the dish – like Captain Kangaroo. Nan 🙂
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Dear Nan,
Maybe the base jumpers’ club should be paying for the insurance! I’m guessing their base jumper meetings are getting pretty empty.
Ali
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Removal must be quite a mess.
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Bucket and sponge on standby.
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Lol…that’s disgusting!
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🙂
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