The Unguarded Woods #100WCGU
Had the police taken more care and realised the meaning of the orange spot, there was a high chance that they wouldn’t have left the woods unguarded allowing him to return that night and bury her at the base of its gnarled trunk.
Had they taken the time to check the forest properly, in fact, they would have discovered another five similarly daubed trees who were soon to become the unwilling hosts of another five corpses.
Instead they had ignored the warden’s dire warnings, dismissed him as a fantasist and a fusspot and returned to base in search of hot chocolate.
Don’t be alarmed, just my entry for the 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – to see more entries or to enter yourself, please click on the badge above.
What a sad story, sounds like something out of a crime novel, when do we hear the rest!
I’m doing #Nanowrimo at the moment and up to my ears in murder!
Wonderful end, about the police returning in search of hot choclate. The body count is as usual quite high in these stories. 🙂
Thank you! I’m doing #Nanowrimo at the moment and up to my ears in murder!
that made me go “ooh!”. excellent. i am chilled!
🙂 thank you!
Good luck with the nanowrimo- hope you do it (i did it in June :O) )
This was well done; liked the police being more interested in their hot chocolate than the crime… good job.
Wow thank you! Can’t see myself completing #nanowrimo, I ditched my first version so am now massively behind, but, really enjoy the new character.
Clever, deep and then back to hot chocolate . . .
Always room for hot chocolate!
Will be looking for orange spots now on the trees in our woods!
Lol! I made it up, I made it up…. probably 😉
I do hope we have a more diligent police force in my town ;). so many inventive people saying so much is such few words. What a bunch.
Ouch! But then again, how did the warden know? In a mystery, I’d be a bit suspicious that he’s the real killer!
In defense of the poor policemen, an orange spot on a tree doesn’t usually foretell a murder. And with chocolate on offer…
Nice one.
Oooh, this is so my style! Wow, this could be a part in a bigger story I wrote. Love it. Hate tht you wrote it and not me 😛
Thank you!