A
WHOLE YEAR
It’s been a whole year since Pete
disappeared.
A year of running the farm alone, getting
a second job to put food on the table, and answering the children’s questions the
best I could.
The scars have healed now and a kind
of peace has descended, but I couldn’t help wondering if he’d ever turn up.
Then I turn the TV on this morning
and there’s a news flash.
A picture of Pete’s car being hauled
out of the river.
I really thought they’d never find him,
but he’ll be bones by now.
Nothing to worry about.
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Thanks to Fleur Lind for the photo that prompts this week's slew of stories from Friday Fictioneers. To read them all, follow the frog link from https://rochellewisofffields.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/from-fleur.jpg
That last sentence flips this whole narrative! Nicely done, Liz!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dale - I hoped it would work!
DeleteIt definitely did!
DeleteBless you!
Delete💞
DeleteChilling!
ReplyDeleteShivers?
DeletePoor Pete. I wonder what he did to deserve that. Good twist Liz.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that her scars took a while to heal might give you a clue!
Deletethecontemplativecat here I will have to come back to grab the photo and take it in another direction. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThat should be interesting!
DeleteLet's hope she hasn't made any mistakes
ReplyDeleteI hope so too!
DeleteMmmmm ... I hope she's right but there's so much to check inside the car for evidence. I enjoyed reading you story and hope there will be more.
ReplyDeleteIsadora 😎
Thanks Isadora - forensics are so clever these days.
DeleteNothing better than a good closing twist and this one is done to perfection.
ReplyDeleteThanks TSS,, glad it worked!
DeleteVery good. Great twist. The clues you leave throughout the story take on a deeper meaning when you know.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Marg.
DeleteThat was quite an about-turn. She sounds a little over confident to me!
ReplyDeleteShe does rather - oh well, time will soon tell!
DeleteLet's hope she's right. Great dark twist in the end.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gah, though we shouldn't condone murder, I suppose!
DeleteI wouldn't count on that. Damned forensic advances... Good one!
ReplyDeleteYou could be right. She hopes not!
DeleteThat was me, Sandra. Duh!
ReplyDeleteAll the blog comment criteria seem to have changed at once. Without asking me first. 😡
DeleteHi Liz. I like this one.
ReplyDeletehI Trish, and thanks.
DeleteNice twist!
ReplyDeleteSorry that posted as Anonymous! I never know when I am logged out these days. This is R.M. Carlson.
DeleteIt was so much easier before anon became the norm. Thanks for reading.
DeleteAnd there I was, feeling sorry for her. Not any more. Well done! Alicia
ReplyDeleteSo now you admire her, or hope she's caught?
DeleteOoo...I like this one!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dawn.
Deleteshe better watch out. forensics could do her in.
ReplyDeleteMurder is risky these days.
DeleteBones? Time to wait and see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteBones, stripped by fish, nothing to see here!
DeleteDear Liz,
ReplyDeleteI think she might be surprised to find what they can glean from bones. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
What a twist, reversing it all right at the end! -Angela
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it, Angela!
DeleteI was thinking one thing and then the ending shoved me in a completely different direction. I'm thinking the bones might be the end to her perfect crime!
ReplyDeleteForensics nowadays can reveal a lot.
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