Friday Fictioneers: All Smoke and No Fire

Welcome to Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. This week’s prompt photo is from Roger Bultot.

At least one of the ideas I had were already used…and I already wrote an arson story… Well, this is one’s inspired by an actual case. Enjoy.

100 words

“Those boys’re guilty!” yelled a town local.

“The ‘Satanic five’ stand accused of murdering Billy Sawyer, who was just five years old when his body was found in a—”

Gracie shut the TV.

“What is with this place?!” Gracie said. “Satanic five??”

“You know the media hype things for ratings,” responded her husband.

“I cannot believe people buy into this…garbage. Our son is not a killer!”

A window shattered downstairs.

Approaching the stairs, Gracie and Rob saw flames.

Scared to death, they quickly grabbed their son, and got out in time.

Damning evidence led to the arrest of Sawyer’s uncle.

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9 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers: All Smoke and No Fire”

The moment there’s an accusation, the families are always in for a world of hurt whether their relation is guilty or not.

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Ah.. the danger of people finding their own way creating “justice” — happens all the time.

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I like the way you explore the “media hype” and how it affects a neighbourhood when incidents such as this happens. So often innocent families are hurt. I’m glad the real guilty party was arrested. Good story, Adam.

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