This week’s Trifecta challenge is to use the word
ECSTASY (noun)
3: trance; especially : a mystic or prophetic trance
So let’s join a little initiation rite.
Picture from Wikimedia Commons
The lawyers looked alike in their black suits, perfect whitened dentures and tans that you can only get with a golf-handicap of less than 10. They all came from top law firms and had received the same invitations on thick paper with embossed letterheads.
They presented themselves one by one, and after a standard retina scan they were allowed to enter the pentsuite elevator. The promises to capture legal affairs making it possible for them to take early retirement, made them accept even the humiliating security search and deep probing of hands covered by latex gloves.
The silence in the elevator was so loud it almost broke them down, but no one dared to show any such insecurity.
As they reached the penthouse they were met by beautiful hostesses that attached to each of them with feline affection. Somehow the lawyers were easily convinced to accept a drink that burned like fire, but made them warm and relaxed, and the smiling hostesses convinced them to accept yet more drinks.
The smooth lounge music increased in intensity and they were all so easily coerced to dance, and to the beat of technodrums the lawyers were moved to such ecstasy that they undressed until they were completely naked, dancing with ferocious intensity.
Now the beautiful hostesses had been replaced by burly men, and someone had lighted a fire in the middle of the room. In the flickering light the nude lawyers chanted as a giant man entered. Willingly they let them be marked with branding irons. They each now had the number 666 forever marked on their chest.
Finally they were now accepted as partners in the law-firm of their dreams, they would be successful in life beyond their wildest dreams, and each of them thought that they could negotiate a deal on a deathbed to come.
But the big man knew. They would never succeed. Goethe’s lies in the Faust story was his best marketing success ever. They belonged to him now – forever.
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April 22, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Unusually intriguing.
Thank you 🙂
I suppose I ought to feel sorry for the lawyers but … great imagination Bjorn. 🙂
The Lawyers got their wish… but if you meet one like that.. you better have them on your side.
Amazing opening line, and one feels a lack of sympathy for these lawyers to be, whose greed is so full of symbolism here! Wonderful stuff, written “in style” of topic. this line – ‘the lawyers was moved to’ think ‘were’. Great stuff Bjorn.
Thank you … and a little grammar error that needs to be corrected. My typical error.
impeccable description of your characters, both inside and out, from the very beginning
Thank you.. Nothing’s like those devil’s advocates.
Great writing
Thank you 🙂
That is downright creepy haha 😀 Great storytelling!
Thank you.. creepy indeed.
This was creepy/terrifying! Each ‘bad’ thing was followed by something worse (the branding made me cringe.) You described the scene well.
Yes. The big man always win…
This is seriously twisted. We like twisted.
Of course twisted is good…
Your pacing is perfect. This is the beginning of a book I would buy if I read this on the back cover. Well done. Bravo!
Thank you 🙂
So well written, Björn! And you ventured where I wanted to go but didn’t know if okay. Obviously creepy at this level is good. Your first few paragrapsh I could absolutely see in my mind…so vivid. A little correction in next to last paragraph: parters partners?
Thank you for correction… and appreciation. I’m not sure of borders. but I could definitely see this in a tv series…. bar the nudity.
haha…my paragrapsh should be paragraphs. Sounds like had some of that brew ;-O
Sinister corporate initiation rites, what could be finer 😀
Indeed. and it’s not fiction
Ohhhhh! Creepy and powerful.
Most intriguing job hunt I’ve ever read about. Great stuff Bjorn.
Hahaha Sounds like some has had a nasty run-in involving lawyers? Visions of Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro. And entrancing them with smooth lounge music… perfect!
and don’t forget the hostesses.
Oh, I like this! So well done. I can see lawyers easily caught in this. And of course, they are sure they’ll get out of it. But the big man knows. And the “marketing ploy”, brilliant.
I was on edge, wondering how this would end! You set up a perfectly chilling scene. Good read!
Well, you “didn’t take any prisoners” in this one, did you? Very well done.