Prompt –
Finish the story that begins with: “The Mayor and the town manager waved as their next victim approached.”
The Mayor and the town manager waved as their next victim approached the waiting car. He waved back as the car took a u-turn and reached the main road.
The second man on the back seat of the car lowered the glass partition and nodded to the man who had waved back.
The mayor has agreed, sir.
How much?
6$ per ton.
All above board?
No, 1$ under the table.
How much of the stuff does the town have?
A million tons in the top-soil of the open-fields at a conservative estimate.
So the mayor earned a million from us?
No sir! You earned at least 40 million dollars from the town.
What is the price today?
Iron-ore is hovering around 50$.
Words < 150
Excellent! Thank you for another good read for the MFtS challenge, and be well… ^..^
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YW!
Be Well. 🙂
Thanks!
Good one well captured the notion of the betrayal.
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Wonderful, captures the truth of taking from the folks that need it the most. Beautifully, but greedily told. 🙂
Glad you liked it. Thanks.
Sounds like the town is the victim of big business. A familiar story I bet. Nice story!
Thank you draliman.
The rich get richer… the way of the world. Great story…. and too often true.
Social justice is human concept and that too of very recent origin.
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Wow, that’s quite a steep profit! Great story YS!
Yes it is and it is quite true in some parts of the world.
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Nicely done. Shows such corruption.
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This sounds really familiar, Yornspinnerr. 😦 Greed seems to be ruling. Well written. 🙂 — Suzanne
I am not surprised.
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