Financial hardship started this journey of acquiring others identities. Since James passed we no long need the funds but with nothing to lose we enrich ourselves by indulging the adrenaline rush.
There is no sick child to rush home for … and although we haven’t verbalised it we simply don’t have the courage to try for another child. The sickness and then the loss rocked our core.
Try telling that to the courts or law enforcement people! Without the fear we have become most adept at what we’re doing. Numbing our social conscience is essential to our core business.
Carrot Ranch Challenge, January 10, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes the idea of enrichment. Use many of its different manifestations or explore reasons why it matters to the character. Go where the prompt leads.
This is the much requested sequel to my last 99 word challenge The Rush
aroused 
this bites!
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This is so impressive, less words yet so impactful!
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Fabulous
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YAY! I love this next part! 🙂 Yes, Bonnie and Clyde do come to my mind! 😉
Excellent write, Kate! 🙂
I agree with what michnavs said!
You write such interesting characters that make me want to know them better AND know more about the next steps in their journeys!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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lol yeh maybe I’ve found a talent at last .. big grin and HUGS Carolyn 🙂
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Yay the sequel…i love how you moved forward by providing a flashback recount of why your characters were like that.
Your technique of building up your charaters’ character is very intriguing..
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thanks Mich … I often think we don’t learn about others until we get to know them better and we never know what might have triggered their life of crime …
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[…] Enrich That Rush by kate @ aroused […]
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I like how you took it forward. Seems logical.
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A unique take on enrichment 😉
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Great use of poetic form, too, Kate.
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https://wordpress.com/view/crazywitch25.wordpress.com I tried the challenge. It’s not as good as yours, but hey, bet you’ve been writing longer than i have.
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about 3 years, I’m more comfortable with free style poetry so that’s why I keep practising … I like your entry, it touches on the rawness of life!
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I can breathe again 🙂 I like the continuity a great tale, faint echoes of Bonnie and Clyde in my mind.
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lol yes circumstances force them into a life of crime and then they get locked into it … how to stop when there is no going back ..
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