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!
Keeping Promises
Sophie fastened her seatbelt, beamed, and exclaimed, “Legoland!”
I turned the key, the engine fired and sputtered to a halt. Flat battery.
“Daddy, you promised we would go today.”
The breakdown service was efficient and an hour later we set off. Ten miles down the road everything stopped. There’d been a crash and the road was closed.
“Daddy. You promised.”
I found a different route. It went well until we hit roadworks.
“You promised,” Sophie whispered
We pulled into the Legoland car park at three o’clock.
Sophie looked earnestly at me.
“Mummy was wrong. She said you never kept promises.”
Autumn Leaves 