There was a three-year stretch where I always took part in NYC Midnight’s Flash Fiction competition, but after 2021 I’ve lost the time. Here’s hoping that I’m able to find the needed time to join this year’s competition. However, I plan on bringing every one of those six stories to this channel, though it’s definitely happening out of order. Seeking Justice was my response to the first challenge in 2021.
When I got the email for the challenge, I scratched my head for a little while, trying to think how I’d write a mystery in a motorcade while featuring a map. Fortunately, I’d developed an investigator named Kyle Rickman, but I didn’t know how this story would unfold. Rather, I didn’t see this story unfolding. As for the detective, I knew a good deal about him, since I’d molded my father, a former FBI investigator, onto him. Don’t go thinking that Kyle and my dad are clones. They’re not, rather the temperament to investigations is similar, based on what my dad told me about them.
It’s not like he pulled out the case files, rather he told me how he handled himself when interacting with the criminals and even the other fed when he was doing internal investigations. With that singular aspect of my father’s personality, I set about creating my investigator. However, the location wasn’t meshing with a mystery, at least not at the moment. However, the moment my mind switched to considering the tail end of the investigation, the rest of the story flooded through my finger.
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