Welcome to my “Headline Fiction” blog. In the spirit of Law & Order, I’m taking headlines that surprise, stir the imagination, or make readers gasp and writing my own scene based on the headline alone. I invite you to drop headlines you’d like to read a fictionalized scene about in the…
26,510 CommentsHeadline: Florida man charged with pouring ketchup on his girlfriend The names and events in the scene below are pure fiction. “Admit it!” Kevin raised an open 114-ounce jug of ketchup. Ava stepped backward, hands behind her, palms out. “What are you talking about?” She gagged from the smell of the…
16,518 CommentsInspector Martine doffed his fedora and set it atop the conference table. Henrietta gasped inside her head. Bad luck—it’s bad luck to put a hat on a table. Her outward appearance remained stoic. “May I take your hat, please?” “Can you get me a schematic of your process?” Martine kept…
3,503 Comments“Rip his clothes off!” Brenda screamed, her phone in hand. Keisha fumbled with Troy’s buttons, water streaming down onto both of them. “Acid to water. Acid.” Troy spoke in a monotone voice. “Yes, acid splash,” Brenda said into the phone. “He’s in the safety shower.” She hung up and took…
2,380 CommentsTrudging through the snow from one end of the 200-acre site to the other, Lily’s frustration grew at the cellular level. “Better be right this time.” Exhaled breath freezing as it hit the frigid air, she thought about the her previous jaunts to the Media Services building. Both times the…
2,134 CommentsFiona jumped in the dark at the sound of a steam jet releasing at ground level directly to her left. She was walking back to the lab from the ladies’ room at four o’clock in the morning. Working as a chemist in a shift lab on a manufacturing site…
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