29th June 2015
This is a unique flash fiction
challenge where we provide you with a new photo each week, and the first
sentence of a story.
Your challenge is to finish the story using
100-150 words, not including the sentence provided. Don’t
forget to use the opening sentence…
This challenge runs from Monday to
Sunday! Get creative and have fun finishing the story!
Please include the photo with
your bit of flash and a link back to this post. Do not forget to click
on the blue frog and add your link so that others can enjoy your story too!
Now
let’s have some fun!
Photo credit:
Barbara W. Beacham
This week’s Finish The Story begins with:
“The Mayor and the town manager waved as their next victim approached.”
THE PLAN
The Mayor and the
town manager waved as their next victim approached.
They knew what they had to
do. Many times before they’d tried and
many times they had failed. This time
they both felt it in their bones that they would be successful.
The mayor and the town manager
were both in their third term of office so it was now or never to make and
leave their mark on the town, to be remembered for something so meaningful that
their grandchildren’s children would still be talking about Dwight and Billy-Bob’s
wonderful scheme.
As it turned out things didn't go
quite according to plan. Their victim
was a journalist from upstate New York, wise to these back country yokels or so
he thought, when the joke actually turned on its heels and smacked him one in
the mouth.
Dwight and Billy-Bob said in
unison, “he shoulda believed us when we told him to be careful descending in to
the Treacle Mines.”
Word count: 150
N.B.
For those who may be interested in Treacle Mines:
An
amusing anecdote about Frittenden
comes from the 1930's when many visitors from London came down to the area in
their new fangled motor cars. One local wag decided that these 'Tourists'
should visit the Treacle Mines at Frittenden which were
reported to produce much of the world’s treacle supply. So many Londoners were
sent into the country lanes of Kent on a wild goose chase.
