This is a first for me! So join me and read my first submission in a group called Daily Picspiration. Every week the group admin distributes different photos (pictures) of inspiration = Picspiration to the group of participating writers. We each have a rotational day and mine is today! So The deal is, you can pick either one of the photos or use them both to build a story around. Today, I am using both photos which inspired me to write The Burning Night. I hope you enjoy it even though it is a tad dark for me. When you are through, please leave me a comment. This is my first time, so please be kind.....
Here are the photo inspirations. I used both.
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It was the glaring evidence of her crime silently screaming, accusing her of the felony of her neglect.
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Here are the photo inspirations. I used both.
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The Burning Night
The burning flare illuminated her front yard with an
ethereal hazy rose-colored glow. When Wallace rounded the corner in her
Peugeot, she saw it and all the yellow tape. Her blood pressure rocketed
as panicked alarms gripped her heart.
I’m late!
Her sixteen year old daughter was home alone every day
after cheerleading practice for two hours before she returned from work. She
screeched to a blood-curdling halt at the first yellow taped line, jammed the
car in park, and flew out of the front seat, the engine still purring. A
uniformed flatfoot tried to stop her but neither he nor anyone else was going
to stop the tsunami that was her fear driving her to the front door.
“I live here! My daughter…where’s my daughter?!”
“Lady, stop. I need to see some I.D.”
“Fuck you! Where’s my daughter?!”
“Ma’am…”
“My purse’s on the front seat. Help yourself! Where’s my daughter,
Goddammit?!”
A giant of a man emerged from her house, stood in the
doorway and blocked out the light behind him.
“Let her go.”
The copper raised the yellow tape that separated the
world from the insanity that consumed what was once her home. She ran up the
path, through the purity of the afternoon snowfall and past the flare burning
to a quiet end. The goliath grabbed her shoulders and told her she couldn’t go
inside, it was a crime scene. Forensic and crime scene techs brushed past them,
both in and out in a flurry carrying brown paper bags, tackle boxes of
chemicals, brushes, tape and the tools of their trade.
Wallace crumbled into his arms as he caught her descent
under the weight of the news. They didn’t know about her daughter, they
couldn’t find her. Her laptop was on in a chat room; they had taken it to the
tech types that would scour it for clues and the history of her Internet
travels. He told her all this as he walked her into the living room and sat her
in her wing backed over-stuffed easy chair by the fireplace, still aglow with
white-hot embers from the fire her daughter lit when she came home from school.
The traces of her daughter’s ordinary, everyday presence
overwhelmed her and she collapsed into the chair, crying. As Wallace stared at
the pieces, the remains of her daughter’s existence surrounding her in a
still-life, the controlled chaos whirled around the inside of her home. It
seemed like a dream, a netherworld of dual dimensions separated by a fine film
of reality. The pandemonium faded to mute as she focused on the simple bowl of
fruit that was placed on the coffee table in front of the couch.
“Wallace, may I call you Wallace?”
“What happened here, Detective?”
“You have to calm down, Wallace,” he cautioned her, “if
you are going to be any help to us.”
“Yes, of course. What happened? Start with the
flare--where did the flare come from?”
“We don’t know all the details. We received a 911 call at
about 5PM from your neighbor—the flare was burning unattended in the front
yard. The patrol officer on duty came by, tried to get someone to answer the
door, but couldn’t. He looked through the window and saw the TV was on, the
bowl of fruit on the coffee table so he walked the perimeter and noticed the
screen off the back window and called for back-up.”
Wallace was late. Her hungry daughter was left to fix her
own dinner and she put a healthy compote of fruit together to eat. If Wallace
were home on time, her daughter would be here now and they would be eating the
mac and cheese she planned to make for dinner.
But, there it was—a simple bowl of fruit—marking her
daughter’s disappearance.
It was the glaring evidence of her crime silently screaming, accusing her of the felony of her neglect.
© Muffy Wilson
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You need to expand this brief experience. It's much too powerful to keep the reader dangling with unsettling curiosity. Complete her anguish and frustrations. We have to know what happens. Great plot and Tease.
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