Saturday, January 29, 2011

100 Word Challenge: Liability Waiver

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge lifts the light of freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere, 100 words at a time. This week's theme is "harmless" and the entry is called "Liability Waiver".








The light was impossibly bright, making the white space between the letters painful to look at. I told the pretty woman with the smart ponytail I would read it, but the letters were swimming. "So what does this last paragraph mean, exactly?", I asked her, feigning poor comprehension.

"You agree to hold us harmless if anything goes amiss," she said calmly.

You're going to fill my body with poison and radiation, I thought, running a hand over my hairless scalp, and you think something might go awry?

I signed at the bottom. What could possibly go wrong, I thought.

9 comments:

  1. One your best 100 words, Michael. I like the paragraph after the nurse says harmless. The juxaposition of emotions is what I have read from acutal cancer patients.

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  2. This makes you think. my dad is a cancer survivor and the emotions you go through are tough. Very well done. You captured the fear.

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  3. Well said. There's a resignation here - after going through so much - what is one more test? Thanks for your thoughts.

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  4. Such an array of emotions. Very poignant.

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  5. I have a friend who just went through this...gets right to the heart of it.

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  6. Really cuts to the chase, doesn't it? Good job.

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  7. You know, your writing is getting stronger. No wasted words, all powerful.

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  8. VV and all- thank you so very much. I appreciate it.

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