Carrot Ranch Challenge – 1/11/18 – 99 words exactly
Prompt – Story involving Wet Ink literally or figuratively
Crime in 99
Outwardly, Harold was a picture of calm as the cop pressed his
hand into the ink saturated blotter.
Sgt. Pine handed Harold a towel. “Confirmation prints, Mr. Jenkins.”
“Confirmation prints?” Harold stopped wiping his hands. His
stomach knotted.
"You mean elimination prints, yes?" Harold felt his blood begin to rush.
“No sir. ... Confirmation ……. You said you saw the victim
through the window and never went inside, right?”
“Uh, Yes,…that’s right.”
“Well, we found a print with a nick running through it. We
think the perp cut himself recently.” The
Cop’s eyes sparkled.
Harold slowly turned over his hand.
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This one came relatively easy this time. Might have been the prompt. But I do enjoy the fact it fell in place so well.
3 comments:
I'm sure many unprintable words would be going through his head right now, aimed mostly at himself :-)
I could feel his heart sink at the confirmation prints. Good 99 words.
The ink nailed him! Good to hear inspiration came easy this week. It's the "magic" of flash fiction, but really it's science. The brain begins to recognize 99 words as a problem-solving mode. If I'm having trouble with a scene, I write in 99 words and it cracks open like a sunflower seed.
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