Jake sat in the back of the smoky room sucking on a cigar. The bartender was clinking glasses at the bar. Two men were playing pool. Jake threw his cards on the table. Cigar smoke curled up his nose. Suddenly, the room went quiet. The other poker players threw their cards down on the table. None of their hands beat his royal flush.
Rex, hot with anger, jumped up and broke the quiet,
“You damn lyin’ cheater, you didn’t draw no Royal Flush!”
With one sweep of his hand, he pushed all the cards and money onto the floor. There was a gasp from another table.
“I damn sure did you yellow bellied snake!” Jake’s lip curled.
With a quick, sharp fist, Jake laid Rex out on the dirty wooden floor.
Jake picked up his money, flicked his stubby cigar on the floor and walked away.
(147)
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Thank you Etol Bagam for our wonderful photo prompt!
This is my 147 word submission for the flash fiction challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. We are given a photo prompt and approximately 75-175 words with which to create our stories. Everyone is invited to participate. For more information, click HERE.
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It’s got an almost old western feel. Wonderful!
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Thank you so much! I had fun writing it.
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My pleasure!
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I love it. I like that you posted on this blog too.
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Thanks Jenn but it was pure accidental! I always publish from the app, Blogsy. This morning, for some reason, it wouldn’t publish from Blogsy, so I had to publish from the WP app (which I am not use to publishing from) and I didn’t know to change it from Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers to Beautiful Words. Ugh! Thank you for reading and for you comment!
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A happy accident 🙂
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LOL! Thank you so much!
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I enjoyed reading this Western-style gambling piece 🙂
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Thank you Angie!
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… and the Clint Eastwood entered to music by Ennio. Lovely spin to the prompt. Enjoyable read!
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Thank you Graham! It was fun to write.
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I can feel the atmosphere! Excitement, anger and testosterone building up, then the hit, walk away! Well written, you really are getting better and better using only a few words.
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Thank you Scrapydo2! That makes me feel much better, to hear that I am improving!
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Yes, you keep attention from first sentence up till the last one.
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That is music to my ears! 🙂
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Great take Joy, loved the western feel to the tale….there were so many possibilities this week with that image.
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Thank you Michael! Yes, there were a lot of possibilities with the photo prompt. It was a fun one to write a story for.
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I love how you involved the senses, it makes the story come to life. Nicely done!
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Thank you so much Sonya! 🙂
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Haha! a wonderful treat to read this morning!! Love the mood here, I could smell that cigar smoke too! I think it’s a great idea to post it on here actually…it sort of gets our juices flowing 😉
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Thank you Oliana! I accidentally published it on FFfAW challenge. I am glad you like that I did publish on this site. Thank you for your kind comment!
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And I thought Poker was such a peaceful game. 😉
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LOL! Not in this case! Thank you for reading!
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My goodness PJ, that was rootin tootin!
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LOL! Thank you Dawn!
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