Family Secrets
An elderly woman dies and her adult children gather in her home to pack up her belongings. They discover a suitcase under her bed.
Inside the suitcase is clothing they recognize as having belonged to their mother and there is one more thing... a baby's skeleton.
They turned the baby skeleton over to police and the coroner must determine the gender of the child and when it died. The adult children, in their 40's and 50's, are stunned and clueless. They have no idea how that baby got in the suitcase under their mother's bed.
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What do you think? Can you write a story from this? What plausible explanations can you come up with? Remember, the most obvious answer does not always supply the greatest suspense... and then again, it might if spun out in the proper storytelling fashion. What ideas does this news item inspire in your creative brain?
Inside the suitcase is clothing they recognize as having belonged to their mother and there is one more thing... a baby's skeleton.
They turned the baby skeleton over to police and the coroner must determine the gender of the child and when it died. The adult children, in their 40's and 50's, are stunned and clueless. They have no idea how that baby got in the suitcase under their mother's bed.
READ THE ACTUAL NEWS ARTICLE
What do you think? Can you write a story from this? What plausible explanations can you come up with? Remember, the most obvious answer does not always supply the greatest suspense... and then again, it might if spun out in the proper storytelling fashion. What ideas does this news item inspire in your creative brain?
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