Every week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (thank you, Rochelle!) hosts a flash fiction challenge, to write a complete story, based on a photoprompt, with a beginning, middle and end, in 100 words or less. Post it on your blog, and include the Photoprompt and Inlinkz on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!
A hearty breakfast 2
A savour of bacon filled the cell. Hank looked over the fried breakfast at Roberto’s gun, bulging in its holster.
“How can I change your mind about – erm, shooting me?”
“Not my call,” shrugged Roberto, “Hurry up.”
“I could get cash out of my account.”
“That’s not what you said yesterday.”
Hank rubbed his bruised chin.
“I lied,” he admitted. “I could lay my hands on $100,000.”
Roberto sniggered. “Eat up,” he said.
“That would be today. Give me three days and I can raise $500,000.”
“Make that a million and I’ll ask the boss.”
Hank gulped. “OK,” he said.
Autumn Leaves 
Dear Penny,
It doesn’t sound very promising for Hank, does it? Perhaps we need a part 3 to know how this plays out. 😉 Savor that bacon while you can, Hank.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle
Thank you for your generous comment. Part 3? Very kind of you to suggest it! Meanwhile, Hank can keep chewing; he’s finding swallowing a little difficult 😉
Shalom
Penny
xx
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Aha! 🙂 I second the request for part 3.
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Dear Gabi
Thank you for your flattering comment. I’m tempted to try Part 3, but that’s easier said than done. Part 2 was essentially my backstory for the original story, but I don’t have a similar backstory on which to base part 3. Besides, I like to leave the ending fluid so that the reader can decide for themselves!
All the best
Penny
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Ah, drat! 😉 Rocks fall, everyone dies…
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A second bite of the cherry, or bacon!
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My backstory gave me bacon, so I said ‘Thank you very much,’ and took another bite. Thank you for commenting, Neil
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Penny,
Part 3 would be great: hey, I just want him to enjoy his breakfast!! Faced with impending death money is cheap, no?
pax,
dora
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Thank you for your kind comment, Dora. “Faced with impending death money is cheap, no?” Money is cheap, perhaps, but pride isn’t. Hank reckons he can talk his way out of this…
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Counting down to the rest of the story . . . . 😀
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I still want to know why no one is paying this guy’s ransom. maybe a fait glimmer of hope. Yet, I get the feeling that I’ve dealt with Roberto when he was a car salesman. 🙂
Another good one,
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Thank you for your entertaining comment, Bill. I reckon you’re right about that used car salesman. I knew his cousin.
Hank has given strict instructions that if he’s ever kidnapped nobody is to pay up on his behalf – equally, no one is to block his accounts. He’ll negotiate his own way out. He’s an arrogant so-and-so!
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Oh, I get it now, Penny. 🙂
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Well, bought himself some time at least!
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Thank you for your kind comment, Iain. Yes, he’s bought some time. More importantly, he now knows the approximate limits of the negotiation. I reckon he’ll get himself out – for a price.
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Nice continuation! I would also like to see more of this story. But I’m content to finish it in my mind. (In my mind, it involves ninjas because any espionage/spy/captured hero stories always wind up featuring ninjas if my brain is left to its own devices.) Have a great week Penny!
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Thank you for your kind comment. Let the ninjas do their stuff! Deploy the shuriken and the bokken! What chance have the villains got against that!
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I like the humour in your story, I think Part 1 and 2 work well together, and I’d vote for a Part 3 to build the story. Well done Penny.
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Thank you for your perceptive comment, Francine. There is indeed some humour in the story, albeit rather black!
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It buys him time and time is life. I hope he makes. Part 3 please!
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Excellent scene.
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