note: new flash fiction story, published in Issue 5 of Detritus magazine. includes samples from the Freesound library courtesy of MSFX, EFlexMusic, theshaggyfreak, sjturia, Maurice_J_K, Npeo, jpkweli, sv650nut, and audible-edge.

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the height of diplomacy

A man walks into a bar, only to be thrown back out. Classy.

He picks his well-dressed mess of a self up, from his scuffed brogues to his stain dried jacket, and turns defiantly to face the bouncers standing at the entrance. Strong.

Then he fumbles keys from a trouser pocket and waves them in their direction.

‘Valet? Valet?’ he screams impatiently.

Silence. He staggers towards — and somehow into — a red coupé parked nearby.

‘IMMUNITY!’ the man roars, as he careens off into the night.

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