Tag: by the skin of my teeth

  • Gerald’s Game

    With apologies to Stephen King for the title.

    Another fiction prompt from my good friend, Jolene.

    Here are your story line (+ can’t kill MC):

    1. Person who has broken something that cannot be replaced
    2. Person in professional disgrace
    3. Aquarium
    4. Forget to pass along the information

    Gerald Hailstone had the necessary paperwork. What he didn’t have, as it turned out, was authorization to share that paperwork.

    An oversight. Obviously.

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