Curly and Larry were surprised at the sounds that had come through the vent over the past 3 weeks. And their fear increased when Moe who arrived for a quick visit confirmed that these indeed were sounds that he regularly heard in his San Francisco neighborhood which frequently saw gang wars breaking out in the middle of the street. After all, this was Oklahoma, an extremely peaceful place which did not see this kind of violence.
What the trio didn’t know was that the basement room from where the sounds were coming from had recently been taken over by Charlie, a teenager who had recently bought a copy of the Grand Theft Auto V console game and was playing it for more than 16 hrs a day.
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This post has been written for Alistair’s Photo Fiction : October 6th 2013 where the post had to be written keeping the photo at the top of the post as the basis for the same.
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Hahaha love it 😀
@Al, thanks for stopping by, reading the post and leaving your feedback 🙂
You’re welcome. Thanks for taking part 🙂
The kind of violence you’d witness at a home where a grown up child resides 🙂
@Kajal, absolutely, especially teenagers 🙂
Lovely take on the prompt. Loved the characterizations.
@Bhagyashree, thank you
Beautifully used the pic to weave this fictional account. Fantastic! 🙂
@Rekha, thank you, this was just a spurt of inspiration, that’s all 🙂
Hahahaha….Grand theft…It can annoy anyone so let alone poor Curly and Lary
@Sugandha, yes, I have heard that the game is quite addictive though 🙂
Gang-wars San Francisco , violence……….Thought to be some deadly crime . simple story.
@Kalpana, 🙂
Beautiful story and written with a sensitive heart. It’s sad how video games are destroying the lives of children and turning them into criminals. What we need is stable, emotional and happy homes and not just materialistic belongings.
@Vishal, well, what do you do? When parents substitute time spent with children by giving them access to these games, this kind of phenomenon is bound to happen, isn’t it ?
I would take an exception to that, Video games destroying lives of children….really…? So basically tapping buttons in a particular sequence is gonna turn people into criminals…I wonder how many of the radical section play video games…
@Ayush, I never suggested that video games was destroying the lives of children, I just wrote a post which talked about pigeons worried about violent sounds emanating from the basement, that’s all 🙂
Poor pigeons. Khoda pahaad aur nikali video game. 😀
@Shilpa, yes, that is quite an apt saying for this post 🙂
A lovely prompt and a wonderful way of using the prompt. Grand Theft Auto… he he.. what a twist. 🙂 I remember how irritating the dialogues from this game are. My son used to play it at one time. It was tough getting him unhooked from it. 🙂
@Jyothi, thanks a lot, and yes, given that I have played an older version of GTA, I know how addictive the game can be 🙂
Haha good one!
@Aditi, thank you 🙂
LOL I have this picture in my head of these guys literally terrified. ♥
@Kathy, thank you 🙂 that was the intention
Very current! Clever piece 🙂
@freyathewriter, thank you so much 🙂
Imagine the confusion 😀 😀
Richa
@subzeroricha, yes, I do pity those poor pigeons 😀