My brain is linking prompts to a larger story. The emotion inverter for #hbp91 flips everyone's emotions and clues to escape the upside down are projected on a wall in #hbp87.
Clues lead to a coin from #hbp40 that bank robbers stole. They hide at a convenience store in #hbp81.
Procrastination.
Sheriff John had a nasty job
After crime had stopped
And other cops had gone
He patrolled the shops
And fancy tourist spots
Watching for neglected mold
For dirty plates or unpressed folds
"This plate!" He screamed
In Sally's Cupcake Dreams
"Has peanut crumbs
Right beside the nut-free buns!"
#hbp81
"I'm sorry Madam, but I'm going to have to take you in."
"Wotcha mean? - madam!"
"You're being a nuisance. And you've been asked to leave."
"Bollocks. I just want what I ordered. All right?"
"Look!...Mum, it's me first day on the job. Give us a break will ya and jus' do one." He whispers...
#hbp81
An ill-tempered cop at a mom and pop shop told pop that mom had a break and chop-chopped the baker's top. Pop said what the cop spoke was a load of slop and on the spot the cop picked up the mop to give pop a crop, mom topped cop with a coffee pot bonk and made off with pop out of the shop.
#hbp81
A red cloud.
Ruined money.
Coughing.
The car screeches to a halt.
Bank robbers flee the exploding dye pack, their faces and clothes painted red.
The thieves duck into a mom and pop donut shop around the block.
The ill-tempered cop wanted coffee, but gets a hostage situation instead.
#hbp81
"A cop in a donut shop..." Cosmo commented while he and Bailey were at the mom and pop shop.
"Shut the hell up." Bailey sipped her coffee.
"I should lay low anyways. Officer Davis is mad that I slept with his wife."
"Isn't that-" Davis glanced at Cosmo.
Cosmo bolted out of the store. #hbp81
Tired and off from his beat
A family-owned shoppe he’d retreat
Yet soon he was enraged
The donuts: in a cage?!?!
“I’m a cop, now please let me EAT!”
#hbp81
#limerick
👮🍩😇
(3/3)
Pop whispered, “You gave him a pot hole?” Ma winked. “Relaxed cops write fewer tickets.”
Outside, Waffles bleated, still munching on the cruiser’s antenna. Grump didn’t even notice.
#hbp81 #flashfiction #flashlit #writing
#hbp81 #flashfiction #flashlit #writing
Officer Grump barged into Ma & Pop’s Donut Hole Shack, scowling. “Who parks their goat in a police-only spot?”
Pop peeked outside. “That’s Ma’s emotional support goat, Waffles.”
To be continued... (1/3)
Officer Burke stomped into the mom-and-pop shop. “Coffee,” he barked.
Mrs. Park poured it, then spotted a thief slipping a soda into their jacket.
“Put it back,” she said firmly, hands on her hips.
The thief froze. Burke sipped his coffee, a rare smirk forming. “Nice,” he whispered.
#hbp81
#hbp81
‘Sugar!’ the cop said angrily. ‘I didn’t ask for any damn sugar.’
The old woman leant across.
‘No one likes to lose a partner,’ she said softly. ‘Be kinder to yourself. Drink. It’ll do you good.’
The cop put his head on the counter and started to weep. The woman stroked his hair gently.
An ill-tempered cop after a tough day coping stopped at a mom and pop shop having a big day serving ill-tempered cops. The fresh donuts had been decimated early in the day. "Don't you know cops love donuts?" grumbled one tired, hungry cop. "Sure do," said Mom, handing him a free sample.
#hbp81
#hbp81
"I said I want my god damned Boston Creme!!!" The officer snarled, his Southern accent thick with venom.
The teenage cashier shook as he watched the full grown ARMED man have a temper tantrum over a donut.
"I-I..." The teen stammered, seeing the cop's hand was dangerously close to his gun.
Feigning indifference, he stopped himself from spitting out the coffee.
"What the hell is this!? Don't you know how to make coffee at all!?"
"Look here, you as—" giving him a cursory glance "I mean, 'sir' 🙄, my mom asked me to make some more, but she doesn't have a coffee pod machine."
#hbp81
An ill-tempered cop at a mom and pop shop was a newbie. His partner a regular made eye contact with Desi the owner telegraphing he's an ass.
Welocme to our bodega. Tell me how you like your morning drink and tomorrow we will all have a better morning.
#hbp81 #prompt
I woke up from sound of a grumpy cop complaining to owners of mom & pop shop I was 💤ing at. He was mad that stuff they sold were either damaged or covered in #cat fur. While still lying over a pile of melted chocolate bars, I fiercely meowed “SMALL SHOPS ARE CAT PLAYGROUND/SHELTERS! GO AWAY!” #hbp81
A cop walks into Mom & Pop’s. The bodega cat, Jinxy, snakes around his legs.
“Get that thing away from me,” says the officer.
“She lives here,” Pop says.
“Animals don’t belong in places of business,” the policeman says.
Mom says, “Then you’re in the wrong business!”
#hbp81
Photo: Two NYPD cops in a Dunkin Donuts on Houston Street in the East Village. Source: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
Concept: An ill-tempered cop at a mom and pop shop. #hbp81
