Choice
For Liam Storm's "Catch 22" Challenge
Introduction
This is for Liam Storm's Challenge that you can check out here:
The song is "Catch-22" by Illy featuring Anne-Marie
Choice
This was the problem. What could he do?
The room was dark, and the door was locked. He thought there was a key.
He needed a light, but he could not see the light switch. He had a torch, but the battery fell out, and he didn't know where it had rolled. Without light he couldn't find the key and let himself out, but he needed to find the battery before he could use the torch.
The other problem is that once he used the torch, THEY would know he was in this room and would come for him, but if he didn't find the battery and use the torch to look for the key, then he could not leave the room.
He was damned if he found the battery and used the torch and damned if he didn't.
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Comments (8)
Sounds like life to me damned if you and damned if you don't. Great job.
This was an excellent and clever example of the catch 22!
That's a lose-lose situation. Loved your story!
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Happy Holidays, Mike! (Including Hannukah, Yule, Kwanza, Christmas, Winter Solstice, Festivus, etc.) I have to admit to finding it incredibly ironic that those who insist wishing someone "Happy Holidays" is a war on Christmas are the very same folks who not too long ago would have been claiming that Christmas itself is nothing but a pagan holiday & shouldn't be celebrated by Christians at all (having been adopted by the church only because they couldn't get people not to celebrate the return of the sun as the days began to get longer).
Writing is great over the holidays!!
It's seriously so kind of you to guide those who are having trouble with writing a Villanelle. Long live the King of Villanelles!
Merry Christmas! Sounds like you kept yourself busy with writing!