Flash Fiction by Roberto Sanchez

 

L.A. shines so pretty, so untouchable… until you drift closer to the strip known as the Blade. B-L-A-D-E. The night shift waits.

Here, the night deals in despair, hunger, cries — and sometimes comedy. Raw and unfiltered.

A young woman, maybe 22, Mexican-American. Mid-height, plain face, plain frame. Plain… plain… plain, until she quotes her price: a hundred. Routine. Script.

From the darkness, a car slows. She breaks from the high-heel wars, click-clack heels stabbing the pavement. She leans into the window like she’s serving a happy meal. Smile on her face, mask saying something else.

The deal is made. The night moves forward. Until — eruption.

“Fuck this job, fuck these people, fuck everyone. I am so over this shit.”

Poor John. Dear John — this is when you should also say fuck this.

He does. He just cuts it short.

Not tonight.

Her head snaps, eyes like syringes full of what the fuck.

“You know somebody else will just pick me right up.”

“I know. Enjoy the night.”

He circles back, drops her where she started.

Her crew watches wide-eyed. They’ve seen Johns bargain, beg, negotiate the weirdest shit. But a ten-minute return? Unheard of.

Glow from her phone lights her face, anger spilling through furious taps.

Ten minutes flat. No money. No exchange. Just another story folded into the rhythm of the street.

 

Text © Roberto Sanchez

 

 

 

 

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