With thanks to Erica Drayton for the picture prompt over at ‘Free Writing Fridays’:
The scrawled note on the elevator read ‘Out of Service’. Droplets of rain turned the tiled floor treacherous. He had to run the gauntlet though the flickering bulb offered hope. Her door was ajar. His youthful nostrils discerned boiling cabbage but the name of the cloying perfume evaded him. He’d been snared before. Obliged to sit on the chaise longue with her ageing bony claw scrabbling at his thigh. Her desperate nasal whine, a flimsy housecoat revealing too much but less than she intended. He shuddered, nervously fingering the roll of twenties. “The rent, dear, we could make an arrangement”.
Could you use the picture as a prompt for your own imagining about a tenant in this apartment block?
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