Copyright – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Good evening everyone. This is an entry for Friday Fictioneers, where we write a 100 word story based on the photo prompt. The challenge is hosted here by Rochelle Wisoff Fields, who also kindly supplied the photo this week. The frog below will take you to other entries.
A lacquered bowl was gently placed in front of him.
Octopus – his favourite dish. He plucked a tentacle with some chopsticks, admiring the delicate fleshy circles.
Of course, the biggest suckers at this particular restaurant table were definitely his prospective clients.
He smiled at them, but not too much. Treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen. That way, they’d never question if the deal was too good to be true.
An honest deal wouldn’t keep him in pricey sushi, would it?
“Well, I might have a solution to your problems, but it’s a bit different to what you had in mind…”
To Be A Magician 
Unique use of the prompt. For some reason I’m on his side – I guess the clients deserve to be ripped off! 🙂
Reminds me of other negotiations going on right now
Well, whether this deal is better than no deal… It depends whether you’re the con artist or now.
It must be nice to have suckers as clients. That’ll keep him in pricey sushi. I trust cheap sushi less than I trust your protagonist.
Ha! I like the double use of “suckers” and so seamlessly introduced, clever 🙂
It’s all about mind games in the end.
Well I think that has to win the ‘outside of the box’ award for this week. Well done.
A delightfully different take – I love where te photo took you!
Here’s my story!.
Octopus has no appeal for me whatsoever. Neither does the smarmy con artist 🙂 But I loved your use of the prompt!
I love that you saw octopus suckers in the blue rings! Way outside of the box so kudos to you.
Suck your client dry and then treat them well in a restaurant later. Nice strategy.
This reminds me of a scene in Babylon Berlin… but there the client wasn’t served octopus at all… but the fingers of his murdered brother… that is harder negotiation.