A to Z Challenge 2014 › Money Down The Drain
Fiction
Published 21 November, 2014
tagged Nico
Money Down The Drain
Setting: ?
Genre: Crime
Summary: Trying to steer a revolution towards unbloody.
Notes: prompted by Herm Baskerville
Words: 100
When unrest rose because of the church taxes, Nico talked, steering plans away from murder and arson.
She talked until her throat was sore about exposing lies, taking back property, and how the worst fate for the prideful was embarrassment. Then she found the right people.
In the death of night they stole what the priests had coerced from their flock.
The most reckless volunteers took it to the cathedral, and waited for the signal they would not hit anyone.
They poured the liberated money in the gutters, and at the break of dawn, the gargoyles spat streams of coins.