From Alastair’s Blog
Photo Prompt from Alastair’s Photo Fiction Blog.
The town of Farnbury was small, quiet and an inconvenient place to live if you wanted a part-time job. Fortunately, Liam’s uncle had convinced the manager of the nearby mining museum, an old friend of his, to take Liam on as a cleaner.
Liam, grateful for the opportunity, enthusiastically went about his work. He dusted, polished and mopped the floors without complaint. Towards the end of his shift, he came upon a room with a low beam attached to a complicated looking system that contained some large wooden cogs. The cogs looked awfully dusty. Without even thinking about it, Liam grabbed one of his cloths and started wiping away all the accumulated dirt.
An ominous creak came from the largest cog, and it suddenly tipped on its side, causing the beam to snap in two. There was a seemingly endless series of crashes as both cogs and fragments of the beam tumbled to the floor.
“…Dammit!”
To Be A Magician 
I had a vision of Peregrine Took from Lord of the Rings when he knocked the skull down the mine 😆 I loved this.
I guess it is a pretty classic kind of scene.
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Woops! Enthusiasm is a great thing until too much elbow grease breaks something. I can just see his shocked look. A very fun read.
I bet those crashes were almost painful to here, but not as painful as the glares of his soon-to-be ex-boss.
Could go the other way…though unlikely that the boss was thankful the lad himself didn’t end up in the pit and in the hospital! 🙂
Oopsie! I always feel bad and my heart sinks for those in that kind of situation!