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!
Well off out of it
Magdalena watched as Jose vomited. His limbs shook. His eyes wandered. It was the second time he’d been poisoned by insecticide. Magdalena prayed he wouldn’t die.
At last the spasms eased. Jose lay down. He slept.
Magdalena slipped out of their hut and walked to the plantation office.
“You want your pay now, in cash?” The overseer’s face was ill-tempered.
“My husband’s pay, too. We must leave tomorrow; it’s an emergency.”
“You’ll have to make it worth my while…”
Magdalena scrutinised his leering face.
“Cash first,” she said.
Next day, she and Jose were on the bus back to Nicaragua.
Autumn Leaves 