Flash! Fiction 3 by Peter McMillan - HTML preview
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"I was thinking 50-50."
"Whadya mean? There are six of us. Besides we can beat you to a pulp any day."
"Yeah, but you can't always make money doing it. And what if I started taking a different way home? Or turned you in to the police?"
"OK then. We take two-thirds, and you get a third."
"How about 60-40? You get 60 and I get 40. That's ten bucks apiece for every head in the crowd."
"Don't play me for a fool! I get forty. They can split the rest. You and me we go 40-40."
"You're a natural aren't you? Your old man must be proud. How
'bout we do this Friday at 3:30? Can you be ready?"
"Should be able to get the uncles and some of their pals."
"Make sure they don't talk, alright? I ain't going to the cops and I don't want your boys going all soft and soppy and giving the cops a heads-up, OK?
"Don't worry about me. You just be here when you said. And don't mess with me. If anything looks fishy we're outta here and you and me, we'll settle up later."
First published in Down in the Dirt, Volume 120, November/December 2013.