THE BALLAD OF DONNA LETHAL (#fridayflash)

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She woke up that day on a mission. And meaner than usual.

She was looking to snake her way across the country and meet up with Hawthorne, a fellow swindler who had the fix on some new scam in California. Wind energy. That's what they were calling it. She didn't get it but truthfully didn't care. The outfit needed a shape in a drape and she fit the bill just fine.

She looked in the mirror and applied her makeup. She was sexy, sure, but certainly could have been prettier. Didn't matter though. Those cookies of hers worked just fine.

She was instructed by Hawthorne via Western Union to arrive as a ghost. So out came her purse, burning everything with her name on it in a tiny waste pail. No traces. In fact, Hawthorne once said that if you doused your fingers with hot candle wax nightly, eventually the pigment in your fingertips would be useless.

She lit a kick stick and slipped into a lime green pair of twin trees and strutted out of her apartment. She knew she wouldn't be back. In fact, she thought twice about burning down the whole kit and caboodle.

She flicked off her her light switch, kicked the cat out of the way and left.

* * *

Four days later, she was pinched just a hair within the city limits in Minneapolis. It seems the rubber checks she used to pay for her flophouse wasn't exactly jiving with the owner. When the fuzz knocked on her door, she almost halfway expected them. They, however, didn't expect the nudity.

"What took you so long?" she asked them, putting on her dress.

At the station, her fingerprints were a splotchy mess. That 'ol hot wax trick came through.

"We need your name," The booking officer said. She just snarled.

He lowered the clipboard. "What's your name, Missy?"

She spat in his face and that snarl turned into a smile. The cop tossed her back in the holding cell. "We'll just have to give you a name..."

"I got a name," she said. "It's Donna... Donna Lethal. Like it?"

As she waited to see the judge, she still thought about that mission she was on. La-La Land was still very much in her cards and wind energy was going to be her business. A prison escape was just a minor setback.

Being a fugitive was fun, Donna thought. It kept her on her toes.

California awaits.

Music: "Twilight" by Daniel A. Stafford. It can be downloaded HERE.

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