There were three women in the queue ahead of him. He ticked each one off as the cashier served them. Now, at the counter, he handed the female cashier the scribbled note he’d had crumpled in his Jeans’ pocket. He waited a moment, nervously looking around the bank whilst she read it.

With a puzzled look, she said. ‘I’m sorry sir, but it’s illegible.’

‘Huh!’ Thomas said, grabbing his note back from under the glass partition.

‘Could you rewrite it?’ She asked.

Thomas tucked the note back into his Jeans’ pocket and left without having stolen any money.

Inspired by the foiled robbery of a bank by Thomas Love http://dailymail.co.uk

Inspector Faulkner rubbed his hand over his face saying, ‘your son gets fifteen years for armed robbery, but you’re looking at life.’

Christian was listening but staring at the Polaroids spread across the table.

‘Eleven previously unsolved murders now linked to your DNA.’ Faulkner said. ‘If we hadn’t arrested your son, we’d never have found you.’ He tapped one of the Polaroids with his finger. ‘Photographs found hidden in a shoebox under your bed. You want to start naming the corpses?’

Christian shrugged as his lawyer whispered into his ear. He returned a smile but said nothing.

Inspired by the case of Lonnie David Franklin Jr (The Grim Sleeper) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper

The concept is simple: I take inspiration from a real life event and give it my own flavour. I write a one hundred word ‘mini-bite’ story that’s raw and unpolished without the endless hours of trying to make it perfect.

And why do it? This is a personal challenge to improve my writing skills, spark my imagination, and begin a journey of discovery that I freely, and unapologetically, open to public scrutiny. It is also, unashamedly, a way to promote myself as an aspiring author.

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