“Mr. Maginot, your cousin is here.”
“Send him in.” Maginot replied. “Claude, have a seat. I’ve decided to leave you all my work.”
“I hope this helps to bring us together. I have decided to retire, but this line against the Germans that my father designed must remain in the family.”
“All these forts? But aren’t you too young to retire?”
“Doctor’s orders.”
“What’s that?”
“My luggage. I’m off to Brazil. For my health.”
“And that sound?”
“Tank engines. Panzers, I believe. Goodbye.”
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Gustavo Bondoni is
novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories
published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of
Codex and an Active Member of SFWA.His latest novel is a dark historic fantasy entitled The Swords of Rasna (2022). He has also published five science fiction novels, four monster books and a thriller entitled Timeless. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
In
2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest
and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The
James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the
Future Contest.
His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com
Gustavo has become a fairly regular contributor here. Two of his more recent appearances in our virtual pages were “S’mores Therapy” last week and “Warranty Claim” back in November, but he has quite a few more stories on our site. Check them out!
This week’s Pete Wood Challenge
was to write a flash fiction story using the prompt, “nepotism.” To see the previous
winners of previous
challenges, click this link.
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