Writer Wednesday: Criminal Behavior
The crime drama
Finally! Let’s have some fun with the detective genre. I would guess most of you out there have watched enough Homicide: Life On The Street, crime dramas, or crime docs to have an idea of what happens in that genre.
Prompt #1: (We’ll do this in steps over three weeks.) Where are we? What city or town, or village? Who are our ‘heroes’? What’s the crime?
Either write down the facts, or, if your imagination gets going, riff away.
My take:
Enumclaw, Washington, a town that is a gateway to Mt. Rainier National Park, means “Place of evil spirits”. Our heroes are two cops forced to work together. One, a former Enumclaw High jock named Sam Duff, and the other a woman, Kosie Wisaux, from the Muckleshoot reservation. They investigate a cold case on the Muckleshoot rez.
Hope you join in and, if you like, post what you write.
The borderlands. Sean Mendoza was tired. Bleary eyed. Not enough coffee. Bored. Scanning endless rows of vehicles looking for any sign of something being amiss. The job was 99 percent boring 1 percent exciting. He had to keep the cars and trucks flowing across the border while simultaneously stopping them and recovering contraband. Mostly regulars, workers , school kids, truckers he waived them all through. When suddenly he saw it.. could.not.believe.his.eyes. On the dashboard of the vehicle a miniature statue of Jesus Malverde—-the patron saint of drug trafficking. If this isn’t reasonable suspicion nothing is. He waived and shouted to the car “Secondary. Secondary.” ….
I’m going to be game on this little series…I’m waiting for my muse to come…You have the start of an intriguing story with the setting being a place of evil spirits, a tough jock and a likely tough resident Native American and an cold case, probably a murder…let’s see how this rolls…will Sam and Kosie, get cosy?