One for the money
“Wash your car?”
“No.”
“Do your laundry?”
“No.”
“Make you dinner.”
“Your cooking sucks.”
“Fine, Dad. Then what can I do to earn money?”
Roger McAlester the Third, Chairman and CEO of “McAlester, Barton, and Poole,” eyed his teenage daughter. “Go down to Burnside. Find your brother. Bring him home.”
This micro-fiction story is my contribution to this week’s 50-Word Short Story challenge. The prompt is “money.”
Lately, I’ve enjoyed including a backstory with my micro-fiction stories. With this one, I wanted to portray the complex issues that can crop up in families around money. The father in this story clearly has plenty. He runs a firm of some kind, presumably law. He could certainly just hand his daughter a wad of cash and let her do what she wishes, but he’s not going to make things easy for her.
Perhaps he understands that kids need to learn how to work hard and earn their own money. Or perhaps he messed things up with his son, and is now trying to do the right thing with his daughter. What do you think?
Thanks, as always, for reading.
