Friday Fictioneers for October 13th, 2023

My last #FF story was March 31st. I stopped for April to do NaPoWriMo. The first of May gifted me my first case of Covid. In June a began the task (after years of self-promises) of organizing poems for a book. That tedious task took months and remains incomplete as of today. However, after many YouTube videos and extensive reading/learning, I have recently gone “live” with my self-published (KDP) book.

Click on my book cover for the Amazon page.

For October’s Friday-the-thirteenth, Rochelle and Rowena have teamed up with a photo prompt that led me to wonder how profitable smuggling must be.

Click on Rowena’s pic for Rochelle’s blog page.

 

PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin

Genre: Fiction
Title :Short Term Lease
Word Count: 100

He looked at the building and our surroundings. Then said, “That building stands out, don’t you think? Look around. We’d be hiding in plain sight. This won’t work.”

I said, “Look, we’ve been operating a legit book and art sales business here for years. It is great cover. Just keep your contraband in the basement with books and art on the main floor. When you transport to the boat, cover everything. Keep the business name up. Plain sight doing the same thing is not suspicious.

“How much?”

“Two-hundred K a month. First and last in advance. No security deposit required.”

Look both ways at the loading docks.
Mind the gaps, stay dry, keep hydrated,
and mind your own business.

Click here to read more adventures in Friday Fictioneering.

Click on this for a Speed Kills Travolta movie trailer, just to set the mood.

44 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers for October 13th, 2023”

  3. Wow, Bill. Hearty congratulations to you my friend. I see you’ve been busy and now you have a book out. Tremendous. I love it already. Blessing.

    Thanks for the story #FF too. Clandestine affairs. Oh my—in plain sight—ooph!

    Xoxo

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  7. Hiding in plain sight. Something that always came naturally to me. I was always so very quiet that I seemed to “disappear”. Oh, some of the secrets that I know because of it… if people in my home town only knew that I know.

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      1. Well I did read said book…your new book after baseball last night….while listening to a local all news (WBBM) radio on my trusty battery powered transistor radio.

        And that audible audio news just faded away as I began preamble(s) and then shifted into your poemin’ …at 27 precent, and at the photo of the black lunged coal miner I called it a night.

        Shall tune back in to your effort this evening…as your riffs were/are a ride both evoking and invoking, and often cement certain.

        Good stuff, well worth the e-book price and more importantly more than worthy of one’s time. Thanks Bill….well done.

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  10. Yanno… when you are in that type of business, what’s 200K per month? The owner of the legit biz has to protect himself with all the potential shenanigans that could ensue.
    And I ordered your book and shall be dipping into it in the very near future!

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    1. 🙂 Thanks Lisa. I hope all is well. One poet/blogger friend (r.Douglas) said reading it even beat listening to the local news on his transistor radio. 🙂

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