FF – Carnage!
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, the 100 word challenge hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo comes from Björn Rudberg.
To read the other stories, click on the blue froggy.

Copyright Björn Rudberg
Chris “Fingers” O’Flaherty shot an evil grin at the hapless shop keeper.
“Not gonna pay up, huh? Time ta die!” He held out his hand and his cohort, Nigel “No Brains” Bingwit, handed him a violin case. Fingers opened it and extracted the contents.
“Eat lead!”
Twang.
“Ha!” scoffed the shop keeper, suddenly feeling brave. “What ya gonna do, batter me to death with the string section?”
Fingers stared at the violin in his hands. “Bingwit, you moron. You picked up the wrong cases!”
Meanwhile, across town at the weekly rehearsal of the Little Brimptom String Orchestra, it was carnage!
carnage . . . for starters, they really butchered Mozart’s “eine kleine Nacht Musik”! Very funny & inventive, Ali, and a great picture by Bjorn. (Love your people and place names!) Congrats to both of you!
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Ha, yes. They made a real mess of Mozart. The original didn’t have quite so many gun shots 🙂
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Yeah, here’s to Mozart and to chocolate truffles! 🙂
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Lol brilliant!!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Ha… there is nothing worse than have to fiddle an AK-47…
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The hair trigger really makes a mess of the quieter sections…
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Haha, Bingwit – great name. Made me laugh, well done.
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I’m glad you liked it! I finally managed to think up an appropriate character name.
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LOL splendid!
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Thanks 🙂
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That’s brilliant. Thank you for the laugh
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You’re welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Delightful twist!!! Love this lighthearted tale. Thank you.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh my! Too funny! If only I had known about Bingwit; that name would have been the perfect response to someone I had to deal with this week. 😀
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Ha! It’s a nonsensical name but somehow manages to imply a person with less than average good sense 🙂
I’m glad you liked the story!
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Loved it,
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I’m glad!
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Hilarious. I like the name Bingwit too.
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I’m glad you liked the name and my story 🙂
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Oh, that is too funny. I will have to keep laughing for a while. Great one!
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I’m glad it made you laugh, and thanks for the reblog 🙂
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Reblogged this on SERENDIPITY and commented:
This just made me laugh. And since we all need a laugh … Amazing what you can do in 100 words!
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Your names are hilarious, Ali. Some people just can’t resist guns. So much for the Little Brimptom String Orchestra. May they rest in peace. 😀 — Suzanne
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I’m hoping there were only flesh wounds 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Well written, as usual, with your normal morbid sense of humor. Thanks for the smile.
Ellespeth
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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I knew when I saw Marilyn had reblogged this that it was going to be a classic FF! This is why I never attend symphony concerts…
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You never know if there’s been an unfortunate gangster case mix-up…
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Hah! Good one.
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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Haha! Oops!
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Life is full of little mishaps 🙂
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It sure is! But a violin could be dangerous…if a person didn’t know how to play it and there were no earplugs and whatnot.
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Oh dear oh dear!
This was funny.
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I’m glad you liked my little tale of gangster and orchestral mishaps 🙂
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This has to be a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Too funny.
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Definitely once in a lifetime 🙂
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Hahahaha! Funny story!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Dear Ali,
Hilarious. I’m sure that was a bang up concert. Bingwit? Priceless. Take a bow, O Humerous One.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Very bang up 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m still endeavouring to do humorous stories for a bit.
Ali
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Alistair, that was fun indeed. Great names, great idea. Bang on…. oops…;-)
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Hee 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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a very creative take on the prompt. well done.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Fan…….tastic! Loved every word.
My little story is called The Orchestra
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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A great laugh for me at the end, Ali. It all seemed so funny, really. I love that name — Bingwit! Super duper! 😀
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I saw it as a sort of slapstick at the end where everyone had fun with their unexpected “instruments” and bullets flew but no-one actually got hurt 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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I sure did!
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Too funny!
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Glad you liked it!
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Hahaha…the old switcheroo! 😁
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Yep, that’ll teach them to store their guns in the traditional violin cases 🙂
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Hahahaha… instant Bugsy Malone-esque images. Fab and lovely to laugh too 😀
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That was the sort of thing going through my mind too. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Nice upbeat story. Made me laugh, thanks.
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I’m glad you got a laugh from it 🙂
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Ha. Nicely done. May your humor never fade.
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Thanks! I hope it never fades too 🙂
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I doubt that it will. ;0)
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Haha, made me laugh 🙂 The names are priceless 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it! I fiddled about a bit to get the names right 🙂
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Some Irish connections, huh? 😉
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🙂
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Haha. So funny, Ali. It’s easy to mix up those cases.
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So easy, but so unfortunate 🙂 Maybe some kind of unobtrusive sticker next time…
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Yes! That’s what I was thinking.
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🙂
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Haha. You definitely know how to pick character names! Bingwit! He sounds sounds just like the idiot you’ve made him. A fun read. 🙂
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I played about with the names a bit! I’m glad you enjoyed my story 🙂
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And thats why I don’t go to watch orchestras. You just never know when the staccato sound of a tommy gun is going to ruin the crescendo! Great story Ali 🙂
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It can really ruin the ambience 🙂
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Oh, no, a deadly switch! And still, somehow, comedy!
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I’m thinking of it as a slapstick scene 🙂
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Fun story this week Ali. You made me LOL.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Best story ever! Oh my, you really made me laugh.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Love it, you do do humour well. Well paced and delivered
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Thanks, it’s nice to do some humour again. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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I always wondered about what would happen in a great “mob movie” if that would happen!
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I was thinking some sort of farce/Bugsy Malone type thing when I wrote it!
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I was as I read it as well.
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