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Hot Flash: Remote

The device was bulky, and cutting into his leg. Why couldn’t someone make an ankle bracelet that looked like delicate jewelry? He’d rather have a girly contraption than feel like he’d been caught in a hunter’s trap.The sudden pain told him that his captor had found the remote.
Who is his captor? Why did they put an electrified ankle bracelet on him?
The word is remote and this post comes in at 49 of the 50 word limit set by the flash fiction challenge for “Boys and Their Toys” from M3. Click on the link to be taken to the official rules and find out how to be included in the next edition.

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