Category SS Prompt 5: Stale

The discovery of a young girls dead body leads to renewed interest in a historical case. And an awakening for the local magistrate.

I notice on the shoe rack a pair of dilapidated red shoes that she loved and wore to death. Inside, the empty plate sits on the table next to an empty mug where she left them yesterday morning. That is when my wife walked out of the house.

    A woman’s purse is full of mysteries. I know what is in there. We all do. Sometimes we have basics like keys, wallets, nail clippers, chapstick, female hygiene products, gum, writing utensils. Some of us even have emergency…...

11:00 am Livestop Motel & Truck Stop Main Lobby “Good afternoon, sir.  We would like a room.” The manager sighed and put his book down.  He had been reading the same page for a good hour, but room 113 had…...

‘This is not working,’ she thought. She had no idea for the longer piece and no time for the shorter. The deadline for both was 9 a.m. It was a quarter to four in the morning. What to do? In…...

A woman is revisited by demons from her childhood, and now must face them anew.

Still in search of his memories, Adam must find the book. But who can he trust?