Friday, April 24, 2020

Thieving Semantics

Photo by Dakota Roos on Unsplash
Prompts = Level, Steel, Steal

‘Look! Fucking… I don’t care what fucking thing you got in school…’
‘It was an A Level in English Literature.’
‘…but it’s fucking ridiculous for us to steal fucking steel! Right?’
Roger Caruthers got this a lot. Young, handsome, bright: at first glance he was a complete package, built for success, perhaps at a hedge fund. But here he was.
‘We’re not… We are going to misappropriate building materials, some of which we’ll sell back at a tidy profit, and the rest sold to other builders. We’re Robin Hood for the construction industry.’
‘Put that way, I’m in!’
‘How grand.’

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