FRIDAY FICTIONEERS!
**We set a new record last week with 105 postings!**
THE CHALLENGE:
Write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and end. (No one will be ostracized for going over or under the word count.)
THE KEY:
Make every word count.
Every Friday (or Wednesday, Thursday) a group of us write a little story or poem from the same picture. It’s a lot of fun, but also great practice for our writing. Why not come join us? Thanks as always to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting this great event. She does an awesome job!
Here is this weeks photo and my short story.
Copyright – Beth Carter
Genre/General Fiction (100 words)
People were such suckers, Elaine thought. Laughing she counted the wad of cash. Stashing it in a special lock box, Elaine walked outside. Strolling over to the car Elaine patted its rusted exterior.
She climbed through the window to get inside. Once in she settled into the ratty interior with its grocery cart seats and non-existent vinyl. The perfect look of the car pleased Elaine as she turned the key and started up its 750 horsepower racing car engine and listened to it roar to life. She had another race to win tonight and more suckers needed to lose their money.
Nice -it doesn’t just run, it runs fast! Great story, Jackie
thanks El…who would think a woman driving a beat up piece of tin would have that under the hood? right?
This was a tight read, fun and nicely done.
thank you t!
750 horsepower, I want!
me too! vroommm!
Sammy’s throwing down the gauntlet–midnight on the strip. Be there.
You got it! Bring it on!
ha! now that’s the way to do it! Elaine is one smart lady…love it!!
I taught her everything she knows.
yup so true.
LOL! Great little story. Elaine is such a tease!
hey Maddie! did you come out to tease me?? Talking about teases. ha! Hows things going lady?
Everything is good. My WordPress Notification thingy at the top of my page is broken. I had no idea you had responded to my comment. Now I’m off to bed. But I’ll be back tomorrow to see what else is going on in your neck of the woods.
this was fun:) a good one
Thank you
750 horsepower! nice one! that nasty old thing, who would’ve thought… ^^
exactly! ha!
Go Elaine!
Good one, Jackie
thanks Miss!
Good for her! Just don’t let anyone catch her revving the engine or the sound may give things away.
BTW, you need “its”, not “it’s”.
janet
thank you Janet, I caught one of those pesky it’s but not the other one. My fingers always want to write it’s not its…thanks again.
This is good! I like her confidence.
Thank you. She is something that’s for sure.
Again a nice surprising one! Loved it!
Thank you Tiny!
Fast and Furious meets The Hustler! Nice.
thanks!
Dear Jackie,
A fun take on the prompt to the finish line.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle.
750HP! I love it!
thanks Ted!
A ha, you go, girl. I liked this, Jackie. Very fun. I hope she fools them.
I’m sure she does.
Thanks Amy!
750 hp? What is she – a Nascar Racer?
I mean, the new Dodge viper only puts out 640 hp. One of the Aston Martin One-77s will get you 750 but you $2 million to get one of them…. she;d have to win a LOT of races, every day against a lot of total noobs to see a return on her investment!
hey it’s fiction my friend, she could do it if she wanted. That’s what imagination is for!
that’s where I got my information from! ha! vrooom!
Now I’m looking at this (for want of a better word) ‘car’ in a different light… Vroommmmmm… Great story..!
Thanks Carolyn! Thanks for reading
Winning a race with that?
I would like to watch that too!
Nice work
thank you Parul!
103 words?? detention for you! let’s fix that.
here: “She had to climb through the window to get inside.” instead of “had to climb” maybe just “climbed.” now it’s 101.
here we have “it’s” repeated. “…with its grocery cart seats and its non-existent vinyl.” remove the second one, and you’re good at 100.
i like the take-charge woman. well done.
well where were you when I wrote this?? At some baseball game I bet (daughter is a cutie btw) . But I got to admit teach, you are good, course you know that. Now I got to go fix things and get down to 100! thanks! as for detention. yeah yeah, maybe later
Nice take, wnder what the mpg is?
maybe that’s why she needs to make so much money? ha!
Like the twist! … nice job … plus I wanted to stop by to say hello!
Thanks Frank! So nice to see you stopping by!