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 (the blue frog) on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll
A Life for a Life
Once they were past the entrance, only the flimsy door of the apartment kept the gang out.
Robin cowered, white faced in the corner. Magdala yelled down her phone to the police.
“They’re here! Be quick!”
The door burst inwards, hurling screws from its hinges like shrapnel.
Sunlight from the window flared from a knife. A man leapt at Robin.
With a shriek of defiance, Magdala threw herself in front of her lover and felt the blade bite deep into her chest.
“Stop!” called the gang leader. “Let him go. She’s paid. A life for a life is enough.”
Autumn Leaves 