Country Cooking #100words for #FridayFictioneers

Good morning. It started early for me, but that gave me the incentive to write #100words for the #FridayFictioneers this morning. It's a little more than 100 words (109) but it's part of a larger story about a woman who goes missing from the estate of her Senator father and he hires the best unorthodox team (No, not the A-Team) he can find to rescue her. This snippet happens after the debriefing Capt. Stephen McMacken has with the Senator, which can be read here, the snippet in blue writing. This snippet is entitled "Country Cooking" and belongs to this photo. Follow the link to the other Fictioneers writing today.

Stephen entered the stable, listening for the horses shifting in their stalls in the half-darkness from a lit doorway. The scents of hay, manure, and leather brought back memories of home, but a new scent and the hiss of meat cooking popped his memory bubble like a pin.

The source of the smell sat in an old plush Laz-E-Boy in the corner of the tack room, his head bent over a tiny space heater held in his hands. Though he wore a sleeveless t-shirt, he was using the space heater to reheat day-old bacon.

“What are you doing?”

The young man jerked in surprise, then glowered. “Cookin’. What’re you doin’?”

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