FF – Misplaced Sympathy
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by JS Brand.
Copyright JS Brand
Five scuba gear-clad heads appeared above the glassy ocean.
“There’s the target, lads. We can’t mess this up. Danny ‘Drug Man’ Davis is responsible for hundreds of deaths. Check your explosives.”
“Wait a sec. He’s staying there? What a dump!”
“Yeah, it looks like someone picked up a load of houses and stacked them on top of one another.”
“From high class casinos and Lamborghinis to this pathetic shambles?”
“How the mighty have fallen. Poor bastard.”
“He’s suffered enough. Do we abandon the mission?”
“Nope.”
“Is he even in there?”
“Who cares? That shameful excuse for a hotel’s gotta go.”
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I’m pretty sure I stayed there … or some place just like it!
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Hey, me too!
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Good one. This is a sorry looking structure, indeed. I’ve been in worse.
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Yoinks, worse? Good job that special forces team wasn’t in the area at the time!
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Maybe they’re judging the exterior too quickly…. and Drug Man is responsible for hundreds of deaths – no pity for him! Bang!
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The front of the hotel could be just a… front 🙂
Yeah, blow him up!
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Ha ha!!
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“Who cares? Collateral damage. Whatever.”
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These guys aren’t messing about. Hopefully there’s no-one but Drug Man inside.
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Waterfront renovation and cleaning up the drug streets in one go. Bonus.
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It’s a twofer!
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I agree with Dale-no mercy!
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They’ll get him one way or another 🙂
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What a tough, uncompromising bunch! I enjoyed reading your take on the photo prompt.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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They are! I’m glad you like it 🙂
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Haha! There’s always a reason to blow something up 🙂
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For sure 🙂
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from the way it looks, it’s good cover for somebody who wants to keep a low profile. he might as well be there.
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Far better than a high class hotel. But they found him anyway!
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Eeek! Has anyone suggested to these guys that it’s rather hypocritical to kill hundreds of people to get a guy who’s responsible for hundreds of deaths? Just saying…
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I’m thinking they pull the fire alarm, shoot Drug Man when he exits, then blow up the hotel. ‘Cos the hotel’s gotta go.
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Yoiks! I’d blow up that place, too. Well if I were inclined to buy explosives. Fun story.
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It looks in desperate need of demolishing 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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I’ve stayed in worse!
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Me too. It’s a shared experience for many people!
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That place is a mess but might be just a front. There might be a tunnel leading somewhere grander. The danger is they might overdo it and blow up a city block. They don’t sound like the kind of men I’d hire. They sound like the Marx Brothers. 😀 — Suzanne
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You could be right about the building. And those chaps do sounds a bit like loose cannons 🙂
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Tsk…such an eyesore!!
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Not for much longer if our intrepid team have any say 🙂
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Good, I don’t want to use up the rest of my eye bleach. 🙂
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That stuff’s expensive.
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It is!!
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Sometimes bad things are more than good…hope there was no fishie involved though….MOL 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Ending 😀 ❤
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Hopefully the fishies are safe underwater 🙂
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What about the other guests? I don’t like this gang much!
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Orders is orders! Hopefully not many people are staying there…
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Ah, but will Danny Davis know they’re coming? He didn’t become a drug lord for nothing – must have some smarts. Nice tale
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He’s probably halfway down the escape tunnel by now. I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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PS Loved that title
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Thanks!
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My pleasure
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Fun last line and i loved your description of the hotel 🙂
A wonderful read, Draliman.
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Thanks, that’s just how it looked like to me 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Loved your take on the picture. Stories with great descriptions always pull me in, thank you.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Reminds me of the hotel I was forced to stay at on my game show trip. Does it also charge $400 per night for one of its shitty rooms?
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At least that. And you can walk around for hours and not find any fried chicken either.
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Dear Ali,
I’d say the five divers are wasting their pity. I suspect Danny has something up his sleeve. Blow him to Kingdom Come. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I think he has too. They’ll have to be quick to catch him!
Ali
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Man. I was almost feeling sorry for Danny Drug Man for a minute there.
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Me too, poor chap, forced to live in such squalor. Wait though… he’s a nasty guy!
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Ha! Love the demolish even if he’s not there feeling.
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They’ll be doing the neighbourhood a favour!
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Sounds like they are going soft! Blow him and it up NOW!
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Yeah, who do they think they are? The best of the best or the local knitting circle? 🙂
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Haha – too right!
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you really grabbed what many of us felt with seeing this place- the layers and the run down feel.
hope all goes well with the demo – ha
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It does look like a bit of a dive 🙂
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yes – and this is also because we are so used to the glam and bling these days –
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Love the voices in and their commitment(?) to their cause.
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They’re pretty determined!
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I doubt the Drug Man is in there, but at least the hideous structure will be gone! Hope there are no guests in there …
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I can’t believe there are many people staying in that dump 🙂
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I hope that they only get the drug czar… but somehow I have a feeling that the info is flawed.
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Maybe it came from a developer hoping for a free hotel demolishing…
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Let her blow!
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Kaboom!
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Maybe he’s there only to exit through a tunnel down somewhere. As it is the place needs no mercy at the moment…only an excuse will be sufficient. Loved the glassy ocean. Made me think of the movies like Jaws. 😀
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Whenever there’s a “glassy ocean” you can be sure that something lurks underneath! I expect he has gone down a tunnel now, while they were floating there talking. I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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