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The Kiosk Men
by Paul Francis Mc Cann
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Rated "PG" by the Author.

       
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     Sometimes the people of the world are unaware of many serious threats that have been averted by unknown interventions

Mr Figs stood at his kiosk everyday selling newspapers and city maps .
It was a busy corner and he watched everyone and everything from a perfect vantage point . Mr Griffitts stood beside his little fruit stall on the opposite corner and Tom Herron sold flowers from his stand on another corner . The three men where part of an operation called The Kiosk Men and their job was to observe and report and take photographs of the goings on in the chemist shop on the other corner of the busy intersection in the city .
No one in the secret service or military knew who it was that informed them about a new and very dangerous threat to humanity . It could have been anyone with a conscience or even a double agent working undercover but the seriousness of the threat was enough to start an investigation and a special squad had been mobilised to by the army and police to investigate and collect further information about a chemist shop that was reported to have an underground lab where certain people were being taken for brainwashing procedures as well as pre- suggestive action commands that were being implanted into their cognitive thinking by a series of pre-hypnotic commands that would be triggered by a sequence of words delivered into the deep recesses of their sub-conscious minds usually by a phone call or knock on the door , This words spoken would commence an operation to commence and the well trained individual would spring into action and complete the mission and afterwards would have no recollection of what happened or why it was done . All he would recall was a moment of insanity and no one would ever know that he was pre-programmed and trained to do what he had done .
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During the time the chemist was under surveillance the kiosk men had taken numerous photographs of all the volunteers , guinea pigs , recruits , and the staff working there and others who came and went , physicalists , scientists military , nurses and the various pharmaceutical companies who were also involved with the experimental assignation squad . .

The kiosk men working with army special branch police units had put together a list of the people who had pre-programmed for an assault somewhere in the future and were about to make arrests as soon as the chemist lab was raided and shut down . In the process of this happening all of the hitmen and women were being kept under tight surveillance every minute of the day .
The first known attempt to kill a politician during a rally was unsuccessful as the gunman was arrested and during the scuffle with undercover police he had killed himself in order to protect those who had programmed him to assassinate the politician which prompted operation kiosk men to make a strike at the chemist and apprehend everyone there . As the chemist was being raided all of the known assailants were being arrested and taken into custody .

The entire crew were all placed into a special anti-terrorist cell block for interrogation and day after day information slowly surfaced of the deadly campaign of destruction that would have spread all over the world with mass shotting and targeted assassinations .
The person behind the attack was a crazy scientist who had been disgruntled because of his rejection by the world health organization with his discoveries on mind control and the use of certain drugs he had being experimenting with.
He was driven to take revenge on all those who had refused to support and fund his further research on the use of brainwashing mind control to help the military put in special agents to strike as ordered in a pre-hypnotic strike plan on any chosen target .
The world had never seen anything of this magnitude before and everyone involved were locked up in several high security prisons around the globe .
The kiosk men who had sold newspapers , flowers and fruits disappeared and were seen no more in their usual spots .

The End

By Paul McCann
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Reviewed by Diana Legun 3/31/2025
Your choice of humble house image, paired with the haunting and strangely-beautifully verse of ‘Face at the Door,’ pulled me into your story. I enjoyed the keen detail of the kiosks — newspapers, fruit and flowers. It created a great ‘setting’ for this scene. I like how the story unfolded and even moreso, how it ended. If only….. Thank you for writing* ~~ djl
Reviewed by Ronald Hull 3/29/2025
One of the themes used in science fiction these days. In many ways this story does not measure up to any of those that I've seen. Where people become drones for some diabolical purpose that must be stopped or the whole world is in danger.

Ron

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