I started the Death and the Detective series from the writing prompts challenges at Creative Copy Challenge. The words in bold are the writing prompts from the challenge. ====== Challenge #89 The musty smell wrapped invisible fingers of pain around the brightly colored bottles that held an apothecary’s dream. Eyes brightened with the madness of […]

I started the Death and the Detective series from the writing prompts challenges at Creative Copy Challenge. The words in bold are the writing prompts from the challenge. ====== Challenge #85 Brett retrieved the newspaper from the bushes in front of his beach bungalow, cussing another errant toss by the paper boy. “Kid better forget […]

I started the Death and the Detective series from the writing prompts challenges at Creative Copy Challenge. The words in bold are the writing prompts from the challenge. ====== Challenge #79 The killer began to wash the sticky traces of blood from his hands. Staring at the imagined stain, he washed again and again, uttering […]