FF – Fruits of the Loom
Here is my little story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Sandra Crook.
Stand by for a major groan-worthy play on words!
Copyright Sandra Crook
I didn’t mean to do it, but Gerald… that smug git. Always winding me up. So I grabbed him one day and shoved him towards the loom. His tie got stuck; the machines dragged him in.
Oh, the screams, the noises as he was shredded… I don’t mind telling you, it set my teeth on edge.
When the cotton came out it made the most beautiful blood-red pattern on the fabric…. once you picked bits of Gerald out of it.
In fact I might market it. Maybe mix in some more colours. Make a fortune.
Think I’ll call it “tie-die”…
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Tie-die!! Enjoyed the dark comedy!
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Definitely one of your best gruesome tales! 😀
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A pretty gruesome scene, but potentially good news for our hero, financially 🙂
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I think I lost the thread!
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You’ve out-groaned me!
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Wince.
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Heh 🙂
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A groan, but mixed with a healthy chortle too 🙂
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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I wonder if it’ll attract animals? 😛
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A nice quiet walk in the woods turns into a bloodbath… 🙂
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Oh wow! LOL!
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Hee 🙂
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Grooooan… gruesome.
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Tut, tut! Careless!
I think your narrator will be hearing from the Health & Safety Executive before he gets his new fabric to market.
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He’d best keep his manufacturing methods under his tastefully-decorated hat, then…
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Wonderfully groan worthy ! A gruesome and inventive tale, love the pun at the end.
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Ties are terribly dangerous around heavy machinery. I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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So clever!! And I am betting there’d be a market for it..
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I bet there would be too. I’m glad you liked it!
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Har! Har! I loved this. That was one way to stitch up Gerald.
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Haha very good 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Dear Ali,
Grisly bit of humour that. Put me in mind of the movie Fargo and the wood chipper. Eeeeew. Groaning and laughing.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Wood chipper scenes always make me laugh… um… I mean turn away from the screen in disgust 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
Ali
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Haha awesome! I’m sure he had it coming.
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Probably. And now he’s found immortality as a fashion statement! Lucky chap.
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I just realized that my face is twisted into an “Ugh!” expression. Smoothing it out 🙂 There, that’s better. And your writing was spot on, if a bit grisly 🙂
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My protagonist doesn’t seem particularly bothered by it all… 🙂
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That dark pun, though. I can picture the fabric, yikes!
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After a while it would probably attract flies 🙂
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Well, just as long as no laboratory animals were harmed in the making of this product…
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They hired a stunt possum from somewhere called “The Nest” during the initial testing phases, but after that it was all human.
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I think PETA will be OK with that.
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The waiver he signed was pretty air-tight.
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Well, you made me chuckle at someone’s horrible death, not every writer can pull something like that off!! Nice job!
-Rachel
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Heh, it’s all in the delivery 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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Clever, nice one.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it.
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Yikes! That was dark but funny in a way (tie-die!). Great take on the prompt!
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Groan and chortle and you are soo very bad you’re good!
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Bwahahaha 🙂
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I suspect you outdid Poe on this one Ali. Now I have to try and get the picture out of my mind.
—- Suzanne
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Google kittens doing funny things, that’ll do the trick 🙂
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🙀We go for white ties from now on…MOL 😀 Purrfectly wirtten story, Draliman…gulp…Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend🐾😽💞
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Very wise. And they will match your colouring 🙂
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Now I’m wondering about the ti- die shirts I wore in the 60’s!
My FriFic yarn!
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Best not to think too much about it… did they go a dark brown colour after a while and start to attract flies?
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How did you know that?!!
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Uh oh.
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I’m laughing, with guilt of course. Great story!
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Oh, of course 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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What a monster this person is! He even relished the scream and hoping to make a fortune out of blood stained fabric.
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Exactly. Hopefully someone will realise what he’s up to.
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Choan… or make that a gruckle. Can’t stop laughing about the grisly story and the comments.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Best pun of the day!
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Yay 🙂
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LOL Our D-man at his best 😀
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Eeeeew! Dark humour at its finest. 😀
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Yep, pretty dark 🙂
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Ha… that made me laugh… I also imagine someone explaining Oh Gerald I love hue
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Haha! I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh my…this one has me shaking my head.
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Heh 🙂
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…and the textile industry was actually capable of finding ways to make the exploitation even worse. Who would have known 😀
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And it’s still not whiter than white today or even close…
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Oh, you have a mind of a real businessman! The world is worrying about resources, but you come up with these brilliant ideas about using human resources. Well done!
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I’m thinking outside the box 🙂
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Enjoyed!
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Thanks!
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