[ wp ] The first line of your story must include 'and I caught him with , of all things , a fishing pole ' .

There I sat in my dark, damp office, motionless but dripping with nervous sweat, cigarette smoke pierced by the rays of early moonlight through the blinds, tasked with devising a writing prompt for /r/WritingPrompts and all I had was `` The first line of your story must include'and I caught him with, of all things, a fishing pole.''' My mind was racing. *Stories about fishing? Fetish porn? Mario Kart? * 
 
 I knew I did n't have much longer. According to the noisy wall clock whose every tick stole one dull second from my waning existence, my deadline would be here in 12 minutes. 11 minutes and 59 seconds. 11 minutes and... **No. ** Focus. That's what they want you to do: waste all your precious time with some mundane chore, or count the seconds you're wasting. Not me. 
 
 I crushed the paper into a ball and shoved it in my pocket, rising from the desk defiantly like the moon outside my window. I thrust open the door and shot my eyes across the tops of the cubicles directly into the soul of Mr. Hed, who as always was perched at his garish gold trimmed desk next to the exit. 
 
 I strode toward the exit, through the rows of cubicles, capturing the gazes of my peers their eyes suddenly full of energy shining on me like spotlights. I stopped just short of the exit having maintained my icy stare on the supervisor the entire time, and dropped my crumpled failure of a writing prompt on his ridiculous desk. 
 
 `` Write your own prompt, Dick.''
