Mystery, Noir, Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle

Bleeker Street: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #738. Our host
is Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week
are shown below.  Here’s where the prompts took me.

fringe, resonance, frill, spin, swimming, images,
fit, spill, trip, reflect, layer, and lingering

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story

The Wrong Turn

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers
This is where the prompt took me.

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Mystery, Noir, Short Story

The Wagging Tail Case: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Violet’s challenge where she has
asked us to include the following quote
into our writing:
β€œA dog has lots of friends
because it wags its tail and not its tongue.”

Here’s my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery, Word Prompt

Deadly Serving

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#447
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly 68 Β words using the word β€˜teaspoon’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mystery, Short Story

Reparations

Written for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write a story about the Christmas
holidays where the conflict is something
different from a normal holiday story.

Here’s were the prompt took me.

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Mystery, Short Story, Wordle

Playing By The Numbers: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #735. Our host is
Brenda Warren and these are our prompt words: hook,
sway, hearts, strip, chain, dizzy, sweep, you, stick, swell,
steam, and shock. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Short Story

Sky Full Of Lies: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #734. Our host is
Brenda Warren and these are our prompt words: rinse,
days, still, thicket, bomb, fake, criminal, foster, imagine,
lies, sky, and sink. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Longer Stories, Mystery

Brothers Malone: The Break

Our friend Fandango and I share a fascination with
noir crime and detective stories. He recently wrote
a story called β€œFive Years Later”; it was great and
I was hooked. If you haven’t read
his story, click the
link above. I noticed his MC and a character I have
previously written about share the same last name.
My imagination kicked in and I asked Fan if he’d
mind if I wrote a story that intertwined with his;
he said to go for it. Here it is …. longer than my usual
so make yourselves comfortable and enjoy the read.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery

The Keeper

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#443
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly  words using the word β€˜vision’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Horror, Mystery, Poem, Seventies

RDP Saturday: terror

Today at RDP, Punam asks us to get
Β creative with the word β€˜terror’. Thanks, Punam!

Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery

Dirk Malone, PI: The Snitch

Written for Esther’s β€œCan You Tell A Story In” – #312,
exactly 77 words using these 7 prompt words:
wishy-washy’, β€˜marshmallow’, β€˜impound’,
β€˜eagle’, β€˜violin’, β€˜balcony’, and β€˜roster’.
Here’s my flash in 77 words.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Wordle

A Fading Echo

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #731. Our
host is Brenda Warren and these are our words:
rooted, years, footsteps, creaks, look, stir,
hour, loop, clock, echo, before, and slips.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Short Story

Silent Witness

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #311.
Here’s where the photo prompts took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery

Vanishing Act


⌘ Rest in Peace, Trent McDonald, Friday Fictioneers ⌘

Written for Friday Fictioneers, where our host Rochelle
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 
100 words or less using the photo prompt below.
 Also for
Esther’s Word Prompt which is ‘edge’.
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery

Silent Night

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 100
words or less using the photo prompt below. I am also
going with Fandango’s Story Starter #222 to provide
my first sentence. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Short Story

Tres Chic

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #80
and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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