asynca:

prompt: “love at first assassination attempt” 

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June’s inbox was exploding. Her phone was ringing. People
were sending her messages congratulating her on the success of her crowd-funding
project: it had reached its target. She was suddenly $1,000,000 richer, just
like that.

She couldn’t believe it: she’d made-up her crowd-funding project
one drunken night on a whim using ‘Firestarter’, the World’s #1 Anything Goes crowd-funding
site. It had almost rules, that’s why people used it. It existed in legal limbo
only because it kept country-hopping to avoid lawsuits, dragging out pre-court
proceedings so nothing ever went to judgement.

Firestarter had almost
no rules because there was only one rule: that you deliver the project you promise,
no exceptions.

June stared at the screen, unable to believe it. What had
she done?! She’d been upset—her mobile phone had stopped working and she’d been
waiting for technical support to get to her ticket for a whole hour. While she was sitting staring at her computer screen,
seething and waiting for a chat tech support to answer, she’d scrolled past a
news article: Pirhana Phone’s CEO, the elegant and infamous Jacqueline Fiore, sipping
a champagne and chatting to a journalist about Pirhana’s record profits.

That’s all it had taken. Jaw clenched, she’d hopped straight
onto Firestarter and typed, “Give me
$1mil to assassinate the CEO of Pirhana Phones.”

Now, underneath the project title there was a little green
stamp.

FUNDED.

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