Today's #flashfiction One Twist Too Many

“Just say no.”

Ozzy Osbourne* #quote

        CJ will be coming over today, which means I'll have to double check that all the rubber chickens are knotted together properly. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

One Twist Too Many

          Sarah aimed to be great writer. Famous even. Perhaps her dreams would come true, with her writing books that rained money in her wallet and praise in her ears. But for now she lived as a beginner. Her mind realistically thought of herself that way. The first book she wrote never got published and everyone told her its largest flaw was intense predictably. Her parents rose her as a good listener to take in all input so she followed through. Chapter five was when the rising action of the tale ended and she started adding in the twists people advised her to add.

           “No it cannot be, my lifelong friend and roommate is actually a robot?” her hero asks.

The roommate begins to the battle the hero using martial arts techniques used by the hero's kung-fu mentor. This reveals that the ex-lifelong friend(and probably ex-roommate) must have trained with the hero's mentor at a time unbeknownst to him. The hero fears he may lose as they evenly matched but the hero's love interest bursts in.

          Yet she reveals herself to be secretly a spy for the enemy! She works with the robot to get the hero on the ropes. Then she turns the tables back to the hero's favor by revealing herself to be a double agent against the enemy. Before the hero can become fully relieved she reveals herself as a triple agent. The battle swings again. The battle progresses and in the finale of the duel between the hero and his ex-best friend and his love interest she reveals herself to be a quadruple agent and the battle is won in the hero's favor.

         However the hero cannot simply ride off into the sunset with his love. They must confront the main antagonist. Which it is revealed that the love interest has fallen in love with and married and whom was under the influence of the ex-best friend. The hero's old boss, the kindly old man who enlisted him to work for the secret government agency is the real villain as he is plotting to overthrow the system from the inside. They work together to defeat him and the hero finds a new love interest in the secretary at the villains office.

         In the end it is all revealed to be a dream in a virtual reality created by the butler.

         Sarah didn't quite understand why this book didn't get published as she followed the advice to add more plot twists. She took in more advice from others on her work. Her next book may have the proper number of twists the next time around but the chances run from very probable to very, very probable that her work won't be publishable. Thankfully Sarah has both patience and a listening ear.