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Catcher's Labor

Labor of Thief

By Yusuf Mert TürkPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

POLICE strikes both hands firmly on the table. And it’s the comfort of catching a scumbag by looking at the opposite, but at the same time he starts to talk with tension coming because he knows that the other person is a scumbag.

POLICE: Tell me, Johnny, if you tell us what you’re doing without any trouble, we’ll have goodies for you.

Johnny lifts his head up a slant before he looks at the police and throws the bastard smile.

JOHHNY: Everything started in a meaningless way.

He starts to dream and then starts to live.

Businessmen, women and even children in a hurry to catch up somewhere. Rushing things and hustle.

It was morning, and he was trying to wake up, so it was hard on her because he liked to sleep, but Johnny knew she had to go back to work. he was late. He had looked at the clock and saw it was 8.

JOHHNY: I'm gonna have to get ready.

He came into the bathroom from his room. His hand was starting to wash his face to be clean, his work track supposed to appear clean but not to get caught in his job each time it was supposed to do as careful and rigorous as the first day. He hadn’t even taken care of ...

From his house he was so clean and ready to do what he once described as his work. As he walked through the street, he greeted more than one person, people greeted him with a smile every morning. Because he would go as a business man.

He had already determined where he was going to start his business and got there. Other people were not like in a bustle. There was no rush. Because he’d already found work. Even he was so calm that people were saying so slow and calm to walk. He came to work and was waiting for the time to start. He was standing there and watching people. Suddenly, a man was hit.

JOHHNY: It's time to go to work. He looks like a rich man.

He was in a hurry, obviously, as he was walking fast. Because he had a very short period of time and wanted to stop unnoticed. The man came very close, well and thoroughly. Suddenly, the man came out in front of him. He turned to Johhny angrily. But at that moment Johhny would take it had already taken.

MAN: Brother, look at me, and this carelessness.

JOHHNY: Sorry, sir. I'm not aware.

He watched the guy go. After he left, he started to walk in the opposite direction.

According to his plan today, he had to collect at least 5 wallets. He had one and four left. Johhny 4 wallet in the rest of the day with his usual skill in various but stereotyped methods, completed his goal and set out to his home.

Johhny had gone into the cold tunnel, his lamp flashing again, to use the path he had always used to go home. On the same day but on the opposite side, a businessman entered the entrance, the man walking towards the exit from his pocket while pulling something out of his wallet but he was not aware of the wallet. The flashing lamp was exactly illuminating the wallet every time it hit Johhny’s eyes, but for years, grabbing his business, Johhny had seen a wallet that had been accidentally dropped for the first time in his life, effortless. All in one bag. He looked at the man walking like nothing happened, and Johhny was approaching the wallet at every step as the man approached the exit with his every step. In the meantime, look around to see if any of them go and go. For the last time he turned to look at the man, already headed to the outer ladder past Johhny. Now the last 1-2 steps were left in Johhny wallet was much closer than the owner. She stretched out her long, slender fingers like sportsmen doing warm-up moves. And after a short hesitation, he turned around and called out;

JOHHNY: Sir, sir! You dropped your wallet.

Short Story

About the Creator

Yusuf Mert Türk

2 Short Films, winners of dozens of awards. Screenwriter and director. Lives in Istanbul.

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