I am taking part in Mondays Finish the Story 21/09/2015, which is a challenge that provides a photo prompt and the opening sentence to your story. The rules indicate that the story you come up with must be between 100-150 words, not including the given opening sentence.
The link below takes you to Part Forty-One
© 2015, Barbara W. Beacham
Finish the story begins with:
“She lived in a mango tree.”
As Mango trees go, this was a very fruitful place to live. The Brazilian Mango is very profitable and this huge fruit farm was now under new ownership
Isabella’s husband built this tree-house after losing his land to the mysterious Luigi. He was cheated and frightened by threats and blackmail following a losing streak at poker.
Marg was shocked to receive Hillary’s message, two men claiming to be top Brazilian diplomats in Britain, were arrested attempting to plant an explosive device in Marg’s London office, they were released, after claiming diplomatic immunity.
The Brigadier angrily linked this to various threats received by other key personnel in the organisation. Don Fernando had several leads and Angelo with Delphine were on the trail of Luigi, it was thought he had temporarily left Brazil.
Marg received fruitful information via Angelo from Isabella the lady who lived in a Mango tree……..
(147 WORDS)
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The link below takes you to Part Forty-One
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johnandmargaret1607 
Ha, “fruitful place to live” 🙂 Let’s hope Isabella’s information helps our intrepid heroes.
Thanks for reading this and responding Ali ~ The layers of information need to be peeled away to reveal the sweet fleshy, juicy contents inside ~ Have a tasty week my friend ~ 🙂
Sounds like Isabella is part of the organization to fight crime. Well done yet again, John. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thanks Suzanne ~ I’m happy you are still enjoying the stories ~ Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂 I appreciate your feedback.
Who is going to suspect a lady living in a mango tree is a spy? Now that’s smart 🙂
Many a strange abode houses a person on a mission 🙂
Loved the reference to the fruit in your story. You continue to amaze me John! Thank you for participating in the Mondays Finish the Story challenge. Be well… ^..^
Than you my friend ~ The words come easy in response to your brilliant selection of prompts.
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