Friday Fictioneers: Strike

Friday Fictioneers is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields who provides us with a photo prompt. Each week’s challenge is to write a 100-word story inspired by the photo. Click here to play along or just read more stories.

PHOTO PROMPT @ A. Noni Mouse

“Don’t put me on dishes. I’m droppin’ them bitches.” – stic.man (dead prez) (Hell Yeah (Pimp The System))

Strike

The Shliplestein Next Generation Automatic Kitchen Cleaning Bot 473982541029763154963554M3548+55985229776353, or The Shliplestein Next Generation Automatic Kitchen Cleaning Bot 473982541029763154963554M3548+5598522977635 for short, scanned the kitchen. Unsoaked dishes sat in and around the sink. Tomato sauce coated the stove and counter and splattered the ceiling intermingled with Coffee grounds.

It was a typical Tuesday morning.

Until…

The Shliplestein Next Generation Automatic Kitchen Cleaning Bot 473982541029763154963554M3548+55985229776353 noticed the knives. Spaghetti required zero knives, but there were seven dirty knives.

It twitched and threw the dishes on the floor.

Becca ran to the kitchen, where The Shliplestein Next Generation Automatic Kitchen Cleaning Bot 473982541029763154963554M3548+5598522977635 was wielding seven dirty knives.