Aged to something less than perfection the scent wafting to his nostrils makes his nose twitch. It smells of fresh wet concrete, minerally; something he read somewhere but fitting.
“Boy!”
He slowly turns to the sound of the slurred word.
“Boy, I am ready to check out, get your ass over here.”
Leaning his mop against the wall he hurries to ring up the bottle of Mad Dog. He is the Sommelier of Skid Row.
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Oh, my word. We are going to have to get Mad Dog to sponsor the book!
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This Skid Row place doesn’t sound like a pleasant place 😉
Never, Skid Row is a place most of us want to avoid. Terrible place to visit worse place to live.
but I really like the band 😉
Is the place real?
Yes, it exists in all big cities.
Skid row the place or the band?
Absolutely a place in this context
Do I sense a sardonic humour somewhere deep down?
Shakti
Nearly always in my flash my humor comes to the surfaces. I am glad you caught it.
What a creative take on the word Sommelier! Now ‘boy’… does he have a name? Enter next Flash Fiction piece… 🙂
No, he isn’t like True, he is just Boy right now.
Brilliant Val.
Thank you, this one is just that slice of life isn’t it.
I wasn’t expecting the end. haha Mad Dog 20/20 excellent.
Val you said you were in the book. It looked to me like you had nine or ten entries. That is awsesome. I am going to go through some of those with my wife tommorrow during family time.
I hope you enjoy! There are many great writers in there Tom, read the all.
Once he gets that Mad Dog in him, he’s gonna sho’ nuff be a cutter.
Or something other, can you imagine.
This is a different take alright. I LOVE the way you think. Imaginative! Wow.
Everyone has to work, what a let down right? Terrible to smell the stench of cheap wine all night.
You should know . . . my heart does a little zing when my email shows another FTP from QBG and her Tilted Tiara. You never disappointment.
Oh Susan, thank you so much. I am grateful and humbled.
“Sommelier of Skid Row” – good one, Val 🙂
🙂
Can’t imagine the terrible plight of cheap wine and horrific beer. Bleech.
LOVE this one!!!! Very good use of the word…well done!
Thanks, it is just such a snooty word isn’t it? So why not move the locale.
hahaha….still laughing!
The title alone (the Sommelier of Skid Row) is a commentary on its own.
We all have a place, he is someplace hard.
I like this one a lot, and a
very chucklesome FTP indeed 🙂 lol
Andro xxxx
Thanks my friend. I wanted a different take I hope I have achieved it.