Category 2021 SS Prompt 6: Clue

The first clue was the missing earring.  At first, she’d brushed it off thinking it would show up.  After all, she was known for misplacing things.  Then after a week had gone and it didn’t find its way back to…...

“Henry can you get the door please. I’ll be out in a minute,” Marlene called, from the bedroom. “Sure, but it’s likely for you anyway.” Who could be here this early? Where did that other shoe go? One of these…...

It was half past two in the afternoon when she slipped and almost fell in the kitchen. Her heart pumped as if she just ran a marathon, combined with the nervousness that she could have really fallen and hit her…...

A girl was born in a small provincial town, not a hero-town, but a heroin-town, whose name no one knows. In a town where boys start smoking hash through a bulbulizer already in the fifth grade. A girl is eleven,…...

Shhh! I hear something.” Nabiyeni violently gestured with her hand to silence the other two. The three women were sitting under a mango tree, sifting their corn harvest. Their houses faced each other in a compound. They worked as a…...