FF – Resources
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Anne Higa.
Maddens shone his multi-phasic light across the alleyway. There – tripolycarbo-urethic fuel, leaking from an overflow. Someone had been careless.
Nasty stuff, usually invisible, cuts straight through flesh.
He turned to the proprietor.
“You! Thank the System your negligence dismembered/killed 17 passers-by or we would never have found this! You are arrested, tried and convicted of resource waste (Resources Act 2057). The sentence is death.”
Bang!
As always post-execution, a queue was forming. He turned to the first.
“Yes, madam?”
“A nice bit of thigh and a kidney, please.”
Police Officer Butcher-Judge Mike Maddens grabbed his cleaver.
Waste not, want not.
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Rarely does street justice and roadside cuisine dovetail so exquisitely. Nice bit of futuristic fiction, Alistair. “Cleaver-carrying Cops” or “Chefs in Uniform”: I can see it on the big screen now. 🙂
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I like those titles! I reckon there’s a TV series there. A tongue in cheek semi-dystopian Big Brother style comedy 🙂
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Very efficient in the future with public services – good to see the improvement! 😉
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Yes! I also took on board the comments from my “Beacon” story where people were blasted to ashes, and how wasteful that was 🙂 Maybe this is the same society and they have taken on board notes in the suggestion box!
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Yes, the ‘You Asked For It’ defence is always a handy fall back!
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Now that’s what I call fusion genre!
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Judge Dredd meets Soylent Green!
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or perhaps, Judge John Deed. He tends to do what he wants – for the good of good of course 😀
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That was a confusing series of horrendous events! Interesting story.
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Lots of people sadly lost their lives during the writing of this story!
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No kidding! You covered a lot of horrendous events in a small amount of words there.
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If there’s any sweetmeats left I’m game. Perhaps I’ll rephrase that!
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No worries, I’ve told Maddens to save them for you. Oddly, no-one else wanted them…
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So Sweeney Todd’s great-great-great-great grandson is Officer Butcher-Judge Madden?
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It’s a family business, passed down through the generations… 🙂
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Wow! That is efficiency.
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“From field to table in 5 seconds…” 🙂
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Free range even. 👍
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Sheesh! And I thought my story was dystopic!
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At least my protagonists get out and about 🙂
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🙂
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At least there was no waste. The Greens should be happy. 😀
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I think they were the ones who ushered the policy in… 🙂
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Sounds great, I’m wishing I wasn’t a vegetarian now!
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Pretty tasty, huh? 🙂
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Gulp. Strictly by the rules… waste not, want not. All precious protein and fat.
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Yes, lots of goodness in there 🙂
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At least there was no waste, except for the 17 people who were incinerated. But, at least he got his guy. Grisly piece of dystopian, cleverly done! =)
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Thanks! No-one seems to care about the inadvertent killings, just the waste of resources 🙂
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This is funny, especially since you wrote this without reading my Random Image Inspiration post yesterday! We were on the same wavelength yesterday. I’ll take the spleen, please…
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One spleen coming up! I look forward to reading your like-minded post…
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Dear Ali,
Guess who’s coming to dinner? But is he Kosher? Pass the ketchup, please.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
A lot of ketchup I think. Though I’m sure he tastes like chicken… 🙂
Ali
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Laughing and horrified at the same time! Nicely done.
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The desired effect 🙂
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Yucky! Good one.
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Yucky indeed. Thanks!
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must be nice acting judge, jury and executioner. 🙂
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It takes a lot of the hassle out of it all 🙂
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Whoa! Pretty macabre. And talk about justice swiftly meted out!
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Things move quickly in the near future 🙂
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Well… there’s no wasting taxpayers’ money on prisons…
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I know! Strangely the money saved didn’t find its way back into the wallets of the common man, though…
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Funny how that works…
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OMC…I’m out of here, have to save my thigh and kidney…MOL…Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend🐾😽💞
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There’s no way they’d catch you, Binky!
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Oh my… you really outdid yourself with this one Ali 😱
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Heh 🙂
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The waste hierarchy is reduce – reuse – recycle – recover. I suppose this is recycling. I wonder how they implement reduce? Better not to know, I guess. Inventive story, Ali.
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It’s definitely best not to look too closely into the whole system, I reckon.
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Gah! It’s a cold, cold world!
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And getting colder 😮
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Delightfully horrific!
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Thanks! I love seeing those two words together 🙂
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Wow! I didn’t expect that ending.
Urp! I think I just threw up. Can I get some men toes to freshen up?
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Ha, “men toes”. I had to say it out loud to get it 🙂
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I do appreciate it when justice is swiftly executed! 😉
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It’s a shame to waste all that time when the accused is always clearly guilty. And there’s hungry people waiting 🙂
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Can’t let hungry people wait!
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Grisly last line Ali – yuck ! I think your lively story fitted the photo prompt really well.
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Thanks! It’s the future of justice/cuisine… 😮
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