Succinctly Yours Week 19

Grandma's Goulash at Succinctly Yours hosts this microfiction meme. 

Each week she posts a photographic prompt for inspiration and the challenge is to write a story using no more than 140 characters or words. 

Below is this week's photo followed by my offering. As an extra challenge, a word is offered for inclusion and this week’s word is proliferate.

He had been told to go forth and proliferate but it was not a friendly suggestion. The actual words used were short and only two in number.

(139 characters)