Guided Tour

Posted on 19 October 2018 | 28 Comments
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PHOTO PROMPT © Jilly Funell

 

Guided Tour

Gather here, look at the view – on a clear day you can see the Isle of Wight and through your vision amplifiers you will see the beach-cleaners in Franconia. Every morning, they collect the dead.

THOSE WHO DARE TO ESCAPE OUR BELOVED REPUBLIC!

Since the year 2050 the Tower has served as a triangulation beacon for our killer drones protecting our Channel and executing traitors. Those disillusioned citizens determined to reach the Euro-Zone. A place full of milk and honey – you may laugh.

Enough . . . silence!
The curfew starts soon.  Now go directly to your assigned homes.

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28 responses to “Guided Tour”

  1. pennygadd51 | 19 October 2018 at 5:26 pm | Reply

    The ultimate Brexit. I can certainly imagine there may be some vindictive actions – like making it hard for pensions to be paid to people living overseas.

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  2. neilmacdon | 19 October 2018 at 6:39 pm | Reply

    A bleak Breixt future you picture here

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  3. June Griffin | 19 October 2018 at 8:47 pm | Reply

    We’re doomed.

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  4. Iain Kelly | 19 October 2018 at 9:47 pm | Reply

    Oh God, it is going to end up just like this, isn’t it? Rees-Mogg will be about to enter his 30th year as Prime Minister…

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  5. JoHawkTheWriter | 19 October 2018 at 10:22 pm | Reply

    Yikes. What a dismal and bleak future and big brother guiding more than just the tour.

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  6. draliman | 20 October 2018 at 5:57 am | Reply

    Quite right too. We’re not going through all this pain and hassle just to let people leave willy-nilly once it’s all over… 🙂

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  7. subroto | 20 October 2018 at 8:49 am | Reply

    I like how the guided tour started so innocently and then suddenly turned into a sinister and dystopian story. Nice one.

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  8. Abhijit Ray | 20 October 2018 at 12:36 pm | Reply

    That a dooms day scenario! I hope it never comes to that.

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  9. Dale | 20 October 2018 at 6:42 pm | Reply

    I think I’m gonna remove this area from my travel places to visit…

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  10. plaridel | 20 October 2018 at 10:09 pm | Reply

    when it comes to that, what a bloody future we face.

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  11. magarisa | 21 October 2018 at 11:49 am | Reply

    I really liked the smooth transition from a lovely guided tour to a tyrant’s scary tirade. What a topical take on the prompt!

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  12. i b arora | 21 October 2018 at 12:18 pm | Reply

    but the politician will always survive.

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  13. jillyfunnell | 21 October 2018 at 12:20 pm | Reply

    Excellently bleak, James.

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  14. Priya | 21 October 2018 at 5:19 pm | Reply

    ‘Every morning they collect the dead’. a dystopian world indeed.

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  15. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) | 21 October 2018 at 5:29 pm | Reply

    Sounds like a version of North Korea… may it not come to that.

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  16. Woman walking Max | 21 October 2018 at 7:26 pm | Reply

    I loved your story, so inventive. Reading it did a rare thing – it made me smile about Brexit ! Very nicely done.

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  17. lisarey1990 | 21 October 2018 at 8:22 pm | Reply

    Hope it doesn’t come to this! Nicely told.

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  18. Laurie Bell | 21 October 2018 at 8:41 pm | Reply

    Oh dear… escape shall be punished. I smell a movie! I hope it will not end up a history film

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  20. Russell | 22 October 2018 at 4:42 pm | Reply

    A lovely society for sure!

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