Today, the start of a work week, is the day that I devote to hosting the Mondays Finish the Story challenge. In the challenge, I ask that you write a story using between 100-150 words and that you use the opening line and the photo prompt to create your story. The opening line of the challenge is in bold and italics. Here is my story.
Photo taken of an old photo in 2014 Barbara W. Beacham
The family had no idea that little Luigi would grow up to be not only a well known cheese artisan, but also shortest mob boss on record. For years, the kids teased him calling “Gamberetto.”
From outward appearances, Luigi was just a regular guy who had a passion for making string cheese. He had a store on Fordham Road in New York. Cheeses hung from hooks in the window, and the smell of the cheese shop drew people in by droves. Samples were always available to anyone who wandered in.
Where the operations took place was, of course, in the back. Hidden underneath one of the workbenches, if you stepped on a particular brick on the floor of the cheese making area, a door swung open revealing a huge office. This is where Luigi’s conducted the family business. Little did anyone know that the Luigi the Gamberetto, or shrimp, was also the big cheese.
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Mondays Finish the Story
I hope that you enjoyed my little bit of flash. 😀
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Life in the Foothills 
Very good play on words there. This made me smile!
I am glad that it did!
I love the play on words linking Luigi to the cheese.
Thanks! It was fun!
Luigi did so well in the underworld that he could be the big cheese at the end without others knowing about his secret workplace. Very dramatic!
Glad you enjoyed the story Scrapydo!
Well written, interesting cheese story 🙂
Thank you!
Very amusing! I love the ‘big cheese’. 🙂
When that popped into my head I really started laughing…
The ‘Big Cheese’… *groan*. Good one!
Glad you enjoyed it Ted.
Great story. I like your last sentence. Had me laughing. 🙂
🙂 Did my job then Susan!
i think I would eat my shoe if it was smothered in melted cheese. 🙂
Me too. Love cheese.
Nice storytelling and word play!
Thanks Emily!
Wah. Great write.
🙂 Thanks YS!
Clever last line! Regardless of his “other” business, anyone who offers free cheese samples is okay by me 🙂
Me too. Wonder if your two characters have been to the cheese shop after a smoke?
They definitely get the munchies. The cheese shop sounds just the thing!
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Great story, Barbara. You can never know everything about a person. I loved that he was the “big cheese.” Well written. 🙂 — Suzanne
😀 Thanks Suzanne!
I really didn’t see that one coming. I should have but you executed it so well! Good one Barbara
Thank you TN! Slid that one right in there…
Wonderful story! Haha! Great ending!
Glad you enjoyed it Joy!
Lovely bit of flash😀
Thanks Shivangi!
If you are the big cheese you can do what you like….enjoyed this tale Barb…
You can! Enjoyed the cereal Michael! 🙂
love it! just as well that Luigi was a cheese artisan – that makes his ‘gangstering’ all the more acceptable haha 🙂
It works!
It does! Like pear and Parmesan!
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Fabulous!!! The big cheese seller and the Big Cheese!! Love it!!!! Great story!!!!
Thank you CQ!
Little Luigi to the Big Cheese, good short story. I could picture the cheese shop the brick in the floor, the large office – well done.
I did good then. Thanks PJ!
LOL! I love it!
😀 Puts a smile on my face.