My entry into the Fifty Word Challenge run by @jayna. Full contest post is here. The theme is "light."
For days, the prison guards had cut power to his cell as a penalty for mouthing off.
“If they’d just give us some light,” he muttered.
“Be careful what you wish for,” his cellmate replied.
He heard boots stomp and a pistol cock. He saw a flash, then darkness forever.
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