Sunday, October 23, 2011

Weekly Prompt Story: Zoo

As heard on the current edition of "100 Word Stories"

http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/2011/10/23/weekly-challenge-287-zoo/

Zoo
By Chris Munroe

“You will not turn this courtroom into a zoo!”

The judge seethed, and I suppose I saw his point. Calling a lion tamer in as a character witness was one thing, but a cage of monkeys as “evidence” in a murder trial was beyond the pale.

Perhaps I should have apologized.

Instead I threw open the cage.

Monkeys exploded out of it, and everything was chaos. Lawyers, bailiffs and jurors scrambled, dodging flying poo as best they could. Hilarious.

I was sad to make my exit amidst that grand chaos.

But I had to. They’d have inevitably found me guilty…

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