Are you a fiction writer? Do you love taking a simple prompt and weaving a story that explains your vision of what you see? Then you may want to enroll in the Friday Fictioneers treatment program. Each week our lovely counselor in residence, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, posts the photo that launches a grand adventure for those of us infected with this condition. All around the world writers eagerly await their weekly tonic.
copyright – Janet Webb
Many times the photo featured for the prompt comes from one of the writers involved in our ever enlarging circle. This week, Janet Webb is the photo provider. I hope you will check out her blog with the link in her name .
Due to a popular request from commenters last week I am keeping Detective Sophie Marcus as my main character for these weekly photo adventures. I like the recurring character after reading of Reaper, Newcago and Angelique’s adventures. I hope you enjoy the continuing theme. Please comment as it helps me decide how to wind the plot.
(Genre: Crime Fiction)
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Detective Sophie Marcus loved the warmth of a spring morning, reminding her of her youth on the beaches of South Carolina.
Now she spent her days chasing killers. This morning she was trudging toward an unmoving form under a sheet.
“Morning, Sophie,” an officer said.
“Jim, what is it?”
“Let me show you,” he offered. He knelt to roll the sheet back revealing the victim’s face.
“I recognize her. She wrote the “Hornet Chronicles”.
“Check that out!” Jim pointed.
“It’s no hornet nest!” Sophie declared.
“It may not be related.”
“Now who would kill a book author?” Sophie mused aloud.
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Joe's Musings 
Ah! Lively and compelling!
So glad you are going to continue the adventures of Detective Sophie.
Nicely written piece
Dee
Thanks Dee. I intend to bring in some of the FF writers that will allow me to use their likeness.
I guess I could make the usual comment about a “private dick,” but I won’t. Eager to see what happens to Sophie next!
Hmmm.. had me scratching my (imaginary) beard at the end. I wonder who the culprit is?
Nicely written 🙂
Looking forward to this story developing.
Who indeed? Maybe the person who first had the idea and the ‘author’ stole it without credit due? I remember reading early on that some woman tried to claim that JK Rowlings stole her ideas for Harry Potter.
Thanks for your visit. I do like your Detective Sophie. Thanks for keeping her around.
Okay, dammit you just can’t stop like that. This is a great start to a mystery. Glad Sophie is going to be a regular feature. I love seeing Angelique and Reaper. Who’s doing Newcago… that one is not familiar?
Dear Joe,
Sophie’s an interesting character. But what I really loved was the play on words at the end. “Who would kill a book author?” Sophie MUSED….
shalom,
Rochelle
Nice start.. keeps me interested as to how this will continue !