Prompt Tuesday #14

Every Tuesday I post a writing prompt and my response. It gives me a chance to exercise my writing muscles outside of my WIP, and hopefully inspire you to write. So enjoy my flash fiction piece and post your own in the comments!

Prompt

Source: Creative Writing Prompts.com #134

Start a story with this line: "I wish someone told me..."

Response

I wish someone told me that this would happen. I mean, a little warning would have been nice. I had been trained to use the silly contraption, to ensure that I could use the controls and aim properly. Of course they did not want me running around with such a powerful weapon without being able to use it properly. But really! Could they not have told me that when I trained the sonicdemolecularizer at one of the aliens - it would burst into a smelly green goo! It is going to take me a week to get the smell out of my hair! If someone had just told me to stand back before firing I would not be in this mess. Of course no one thinks of that. They just want me to take their big fancy gun and save the world, again.