First Impressions

... of Heroes and the Misunderstood is a Six Sentence Serial story co-written by Clark (from The Wakefield Doctrine) and myself. The story so far can be found by clicking the link above.

Four years ago, Tunglkross Gestrisnimiðstöðin (Mooncross Hospitality Centre), Tunglfjőrður, Iceland: Alex dashed into reception, his light brown hair a few shades darker due to the heavy downpour of rain that caused it to be plastered to his head; his clothes soaked to his skin finishing off his how not to present yourself at an interview look. He was also forty minutes late, due to a landslide that had caused tailbacks on the road to the centre, although he had called ahead and had been told not to worry about it and he would still be seen when he got there.

After finding the gent’s washroom, from the receptionist’s directions, he attempted to make himself look slightly better, before going back to the receptionist to say he’d arrived.

His interview was on the fifth floor, and after managing to stick a label with his name on to his wet jacket, and waiting for a few seconds, the elevator doors opened with a musical ping up above; he walked in and pressed the top button for floor five.

‘Hold that elevator…’ a female voice cut across the hum of the closing doors, and instinctively Alex pressed the button to open the doors again; ‘yes, dahling, that’s right,’ the woman, dressed in a powerful black double-breasted suit with dashes of white around the collar and cuffs, dark stockings and black Elmay LeBoo heels, eyed Alex up and down as she walked through the doors speaking on a mobile phone, ‘Genevieve, I must go now, of course… of course… you have the word of Anya Claireaux… ciao, bella… floor five, if you please.’

The woman, Anya, stood looking at Alex for the duration of the elevator ride without saying a word, but waited for him to leave the elevator first when the doors opened; as she left to walk along the corridor in the opposite direction, she heard the wet young man say, ‘I’m Alex Jokullson, I’m here for an interview for an IT technician.’

Another Six Sentence Story with the prompt word Present.