Police Stories writing prompt
The Memento in the Alley
A notorious gang leader is found dead in an alley, and the first officer on the scene takes a personal memento from the crime scene - a decision that haunts him. Write about how this object reveals unexpected secrets about the officer's own life and how it connects him to the criminal underworld.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Make the detective wrong at the midpoint, for a good reason.
- 2End with the solution in a single line of dialogue.
- 3Plant the key clue in the first scene, in plain sight.
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