Friday Fictioneers is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields who provides us with a photo prompt. Each week’s challenge is to write a 100-word story inspired by the photo. Click here to play along or just read more stories.
Starving Artist
His brush caressed the canvas in strokes that were simultaneously gentle and firm, rapid and concise. Crowds watched in awe as he whipped up painting after painting. Just as quickly, his assistant set them in frames. Many in the consistently thick crowd purchased paintings before they were dry.
Every person who carried an air of affluence got a follow-up visit. This starving artist never missed an opportunity.
Painting wasn’t the only art at which this artist excelled. Constraint, timing, planning, and breaking and entering were a few others.
No one ever noticed the tiny trackers set inside the paintings’ frames.
NobbinBlog 
Now that’s using their initiative. Good one.
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Craft fairs don’t always pay the rent. Thank you.
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Great twist in the tale
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Thank you.
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As good a twist in the tale as I’ve seen in a long time.
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That is quite the compliment. Thank you.
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An artist in every sense and skilled in the criminal tricks. I expect he is not that hungry for food.
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I think it’s the hunt that satiates him.
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Brilliant! A con artist 🙂
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Thank you. That’s a brilliant pun.
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That was expertly done, what a great twist!
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Thank you.
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How ingenious! I admire his many talents.
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Thank you, but he’d prefer you look the other way to admiring.
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Now that’s an enterprising artist!
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He has to subsidize his income somehow.
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Not so starving after all, is he? Rather enterprising fellow!
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He’s starving for his next score. Cha-ching!
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😀
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A double-win – sell the painting and then rob them!
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Win-wins are the best situations. At least he doesn’t steal back his paintings… or does he?
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Now that’s a smart artist.
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If it doesn’t pay to be good, it pays to be smart.
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Certainly does! 😀
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A very engaging story. I was swept up and then surprised by the wonderful twist. Well done!!
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Except for the wonderful part, I think the art buyers would agree with you. Thank you.
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Indeed. One’s talent is not always the same as one’s profession. Nice twist.
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It pays to be multitalented. Thank you.
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🙂
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If only art received the price it deserved, perhaps he could lay off the other side of the deal. I loved this story – great example of a whole piece in 100 words
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Where’s the fun in that? Thank you.
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Dear Nobbin,
He’s definitely an artist. I’m just not buying the starving part. 😉 Con comes to mind. Hm. I wonder if that tracking device thing would work for me. Nah. Good story with an unexpected twist of the brush.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Nobody expects the starving artist. Everybody expects the con artist.
Thank you, Rochelle.
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Never can be too careful these days. Reminds me of the new apple tags. Women have been stalked.
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I saw that. I’m not sure what they are, but they seem worse than skin tags.
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