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Death Is in the Details

10/31/2022

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NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge
Assignment: 1,000 words
Genre: Mystery
Location: A recording studio
Object: Cheddar cheese

Cassandra Lane loved solving murders.

She wasn’t a detective, but she was the next best thing: an audiobook narrator specializing in murder mysteries. Over the past twelve years, she’d narrated hundreds of books about everything from murderous housewives to vengeful ghosts, and Cass adored every one.

​Cass was on her way to the recording studio to meet with Detective Jack Nunez about Annabelle Stone, her biggest client. She released a new novel every year, and Cass had narrated eight of them. They tended to be grisly, but Cass loved them because they were smart. Annabelle’s books were not predictable, no matter how many of them you read.

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Grannie Mae's Pocket Watch

10/31/2022

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NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge
Assignment: 1,000 words
Genre: Drama
Location: A "welcome home" party
Object: A box of raisins

Heirlooms can pass down through a family like blood, and inspire no less loyalty and betrayal.

​I thought about blood and betrayal, about loyalty and the dying wishes of a beloved grandmother, on the entire five-hour flight from San Francisco to Indianapolis. Blood was finally returning to blood, and I was going home.

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