Black and White - A Little Drabble Do Ya! -April 17th

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Nothing in life was entirely black or white.

Illya Kuryakin had spent far too long operating in a shadowy world to think of life as being anything other than many shades of grey. Nothing would ever be clear cut in international espionage business. It was a world of secrets and lies, and of cloaks and daggers. Trust was a rare commodity and, even within a strong bond, skeletons could still be buried.

Nothing in life was entirely black or white; with one exception. If it came down to his life, or that of an innocent, his would always be forfeit.

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Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Wow cuz, heavy duty stuff. Well done!

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

Dark and bittersweet. Well done!

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)
I hadn't intended to write something so dark, but this is what came to me today.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Two of my favourite things. Thank you :-)

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

Neat drabble.
You may know the rather elegiac song called "Shades of gray", by the Monkees, but if you don't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZxRjItD1o

Be careful, it's liable to become an earworm.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I know it very well. It's one of my favourite Monkees tracks, and the one to which I point when people say they weren't a legitimate band.

I've also been singing it since I wrote the drabble :--)

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

One of their best, but I've had it as an earworm since I rediscovered it, which is a bit tiresome.
When did you discover the Monkees? I actually went to see them when they came to London in 1967 - but only to see: no-one could have heard them above the screaming.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

My parents were teens in the 60s so I grew up listening to the music of the time. I discovered the TV show when I was about 10 (the same as when I discovered UNCLE), and it was repeated on a Saturday morning.

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

Mine, too!

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

I think the show must have ended by the time I left home, so I left all my vinyl records of the Monkees behind when I went to university. The records were probably thrown out and I didn't think about them till recently when I saw in a YouTube clip that they often used the same sets and props as MFU (including the ultimate computer). So, I bought a CD - hence the earworm...