Recovery Ranch

Friday Fictioneers is a weekly blog link-up led by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields at Addicted to Purple. The Challenge – write a one hundred word (plus or minus) story with a beginning, middle, and end inspired by the picture*. The Key – make every word count.

The picture is worth a thousand words. These are another one hundred.

*Image Copyright © G.L. MacMillan

“Why don’t she let nobody in there?” asked Jude, the newest at the ranch.

“She don’t want to,” Harlem answered. “Shut your face. Be glad you got a bed and food.” He smacked Jude upside his head. Jude moved to punch Harlem, but Nomy walked outside.

“Calm yourselves, boys,” she said. “This is a glass house, and I shall throw no stones, but you will throw no punches, or it’s back on the streets for you.”

Fourteen heads bowed. Two more than allowed by license, but Nomy knew the Sheriff would only bring, not take away. It was her penance.

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100 words. Fiction. Feedback is always appreciated. Comments of any kind really — so long as they are related to the post. Click below to read other creative contributions.

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