This week’s photo writing prompt courtesy of Sue Vincent’s fun #writephoto challenge is entitled simply “murmur”.

The basic idea for this story came fairly quickly, but it took me a few goes to get the format right. My first effort was from the perspective of the starlings but that was proving a little tricky. So I flipped it around. I hope it entertains (~860 words).

Breathless, she ran up the metal stairs two at a time, clutching the crumpled paper in her hand. “There you are, did you know about this?”

Steve nodded, not turning from the junction box he was knelt at. He had a tablet in one hand a hammer in the other.

“They can’t do this,” she wailed, ripping the paper to shreds.

“Yes they can,” Steve said calmly, “They fund it!”

“But why now,” she pleaded.

“You know why,” he said, rubbing his thumb and index finger together, “Money, it’s always about the money.”

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