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Involve The Police and The Lady Dies

Posted on by Mike

I lit another cigarette and waited, my eyes fixed on the phone opposite me.

Even though I’d been expecting it the shrill tone of the phone ringing made me jump. I lifted the receiver and listened.

A muffled voice said, “Do exactly what I say and everything will be alright. Twenty thousand in used notes. We’ll tell you where. Involve the police and the lady dies.” Then the phone went dead.

I leant against the wall and slowly finished the cigarette wondering if the lady in question, my wife, was worth twenty thousand pounds.

On balance I decided she wasn’t.

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A 100-word story for Friday Fictioneers.

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Hello, my name is Mike Jackson. If you have any comments about the post you have just read I'd love to read them.

15 thoughts on “Involve The Police and The Lady Dies”

  6. I believe anyone’s life is “worth it” but when you start paying kidnappers you’re only asking for more.
    The book “Chasing the Sun” tells if a man who bankrupted himself to pay the ransom and when she got home she was most ungrateful. You wonder if he should have left her with them.

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