“How did you get here?”
Oh, I don’t know.
“Everybody knows, so what’s your tale?”
Well, I pulled a few strings and played my cards right and some – no, many – many people got hurt.
“I see.”
I was the guy – no, one of the guys – who more or less literally gained the whole world not that it was very much looking back.
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Denise offers the prompt word “card” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Mark 8:36 KJV – For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 