“Hello, Sterling. I am Detective Mason, thank you for sitting down with me today. Let’s get right into it. I understand they call you ‘the Baker’.”
Mason set down a glass of water in front of his subject at the table and met his eyes. He made sure the other was watching as he hit the ‘stop’ button on the recording device and nonchalantly sat in the chair opposite of his detainee.
The Baker snorted at him.
“What’s so funny?”
“Do all your witnesses fall for that trick, you turning off a tape recorder?”
Category: Writing Prompts
Music Inspired: Grandpa’s Song
I learned this song for you, Grandpa.
You lived to “see” your seventy seventh birthday, if one could call it that. I wouldn’t. By that point you were an empty body, hardly cognizant of the world, absent to the daily routine we all kept to watch over your bed. I took the afternoon shifts so I could sit with you, even if you never woke. I learned this song to say goodbye.
The Divine Farmer
Aphrodite paced the columns again, probably for the hundredth time. “Do you have any special talents?” She asked. Asyran folded his wiry sun-spotted arms, thinking. The agrarian god’s thinking face made Aphrodite think of a beast of burden chewing cud. He was neither ruggedly handsome like Herkules, nor suavely seductive […]
The Snow Queen
[WP] The cold, frigid, and proud Ice Queen, unable to feel emotion, finds a little boy dying in her frozen wastelands. She decides to keep him. She was on a mission to find peace. My proud queen didn’t admit it to me, of course, but I knew it in my […]
Middlegate Road
Musical Inspiration: Gravedigger, Dave Matthews Band I found myself in a diner. I don’t know how, I don’t know why. When I last closed my eyes it was to a hectic hospital room, on a bed covered in wires and tubes with incessantly beeping monitors. The distant weeping had faded. […]
The Projections
It was cold in the drafty ballroom. You’d think for someone with ‘fuck you money’ they’d make their ballrooms actually hospitable, but you’d be wrong. It seemed like the more rich these people got, the more their true cold blooded nature came out. I stood next to a marble fireplace […]
The Family Hero
There are so many reasons I chose this place. Firstly, it was outside the city gates. This was a major factor to me. I would have moved away to the ends of the earth, but I knew my fate was tied to those who lived within the city walls, so […]
The Survivor
Where to begin. I’ve had so many of those… Beginnings, that is. I’m sick of them. Some would say I’m lucky, but those people are wrong. There is such a thing as too many beginnings, and I’m living proof. Three hundred years at the base of the sacred mountains of […]
The Walking Path
Jesse It seemed to last an eternity, but after long moments, Jesse felt her body go slack. The screaming had stopped, at least. Jesse bowed his head and listened as the night got quieter with each slowing breath from her body. He relaxed the grip of his hand over Abby’s […]
The Last Target
It’s a simple story, but not one easily told. I’d thought about how to say it out loud many times but wouldn’t dare ever tell another soul about it. Maybe on my deathbed? Sure, that sounded simple enough, and I’d practiced that part plenty: “So, listen. I killed your mom […]