Challenge
Jan 2025 Drabble Challenge: Re-solve
With the new year upon us, let's solve a mystery. A crime. A murder. A heist. Tell me a story about how crime pays, or doesn't. In exactly 100 words, give me a flash fiction (or factual) piece that explores something criminal, either unsolved or easily explained. There's a prize for what I consider to be the most interesting entry. Here are the rules if you're interested in winning: tell me a story in exactly 100 words. Use prose, not poetry, standard punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Please do NOT tag me, I'll read all the entries conforming to the rules at the end of the challenge period.
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The Look-Alike Art Mystery
Abbot held himself in a strict straight backed posture, his chest heaving certain that to this red-headed teenage girl-- this teenager they'd ABDUCTED!-- must have seen a monster baring down onto her.
She didn't look petrified. She didn't beg or cry.
She just took another dollop of pudding to her lips.
Blinking balefully at him.
"I'm sorry, and also sorry," she said as she began to pull at the hem of her plaid skirt, "that my friends and Adam absolutely won't give up the evidence."
Abbot just groaned, continuing his guard duty of Molly Jones seated.
"Tell me about you."