The Wheel of Justice – Friday Fictioneers

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It’s Friday Fictioneers time! The challenge is to write 100 words based on a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Check out her blog for more information by clicking here. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.

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PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

The Wheel of Justice

The room was vast. In its centre, housed on a vertical axle, was a great wheel.

“What is it?” I asked.

“The Wheel of Justice,” he replied. “Two criminals: each chained to opposite sides of the wheel; each having first swallowed the key to the other’s freedom. Only one may leave here alive. The chains are just long enough to reach your opponent. If both move in the same direction,” he pushed the wheel which rotated with relative ease, “then justice can take days.”

“That’s not justice. It’s barbaric.” I cried.

“An interesting opinion,” he said, “coming from a human.”

7 responses to “The Wheel of Justice – Friday Fictioneers”

  1. rochellewisoff Avatar

    Dear Thom,

    Why do I picture Jean Luc Picard and a Kardasian on Star Trek NG? Well done.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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  2. michael1148humphris Avatar
    michael1148humphris

    That is a interesting dilemma, I guess that they don’t get to give each other an emetic

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  3. Laurie Bell Avatar

    Oooooo awful! What a terrible choice.

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  4. spicedmullings Avatar

    Great comment on human beings! Just about sums us up, especially the way things are going on in every part of the globe!

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  5. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) Avatar

    I think the process of justice has some similarities to this… I see some version of hunger games here.

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  6. FabricatingFiction Avatar

    What an awful choice.

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  7. Dale Avatar
    Dale

    Humans are barbaric, are they not? Eesh…

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