Petit Déjeuner – Six Sentence Story

Copyright C. E. Ayr

This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – JUICE

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Petit Déjeuner

Although it is not yet 9 o’clock the Avenue des Alliés, where I sit outside a little café, enjoying orange juice and croissants in the morning sunshine, is pulsing with life.

I wonder yet again if I’m the only person in France who doesn’t drink coffee for breakfast.

As I watch people going about their daily routines, little stories form in my head, because I am, after all, a writer.

Ostensibly.

I smile as I think of the cache of passports, weapons, and other tools of the trade that are hidden in my small apartment.

I can hardly write about my real job, can I?

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16 Responses to Petit Déjeuner – Six Sentence Story

  1. Sure you can! You’re a writer, after all 🙂

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  2. Shhh, you’re right, don’t mention the apartment. As for breakfast in France… I start with coffee and end with an orange juice (croissants/pain au chocolat in between). Yum!

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  3. A bit risky, you never know who might have read this!

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  4. Chris Hall says:

    Ha! I knew there was something lurking beneath the surface of that wolfish smile…
    Most excellent Six, sir!

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  5. He can store up stories to write when he retires, changing enough names and circumstances to hide himself.

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  6. Lindsey says:

    Sunshine, croissants and mystery. Sounds good to me!

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  7. Frank Hubeny says:

    The orange juice and writer occupation seems to parallel the coffee and the more dangerous line of work he is involved in.

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  8. You sly Scottie dog you, hiding out in Paris. Loved this.

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  9. Liz H says:

    Orange juice and croissants in a French cafe (looks out the window and sees snow and slush and gray skies). Almost worth the spy’s life…but I’d need a neat espresso to go with it! 🙂

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  10. There’s more than meets the eye with this writer.

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  11. UP says:

    what clark said. indeed

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  12. clark says:

    a scene to launch a thousand ships Sixes

    fun Six

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  13. jenne49 says:

    ‘Where nothing is quite what it seems’ right enough.
    Mystère et boule de gomme…
    AND your story has given me the notion for coffee and croissants outside a French cafe, where I would sit in the sunshine and ponder exactly what your narrator’s real job is.

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  14. ladysighs says:

    I compliment you on your breakfast choices, sir.
    May I serve you anything else?
    Compliments of the house of course.

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