Charlene loved Mysteries, but nothing mysterious ever happened.
She walked past men robbing banks, and sighed.
Her eyes glazed over yet another discarded jewelry pile by a guttered body.
Sorting through inheritance letters from unknown relatives, she decided -maybe- to consider Romances.
©2021 Chelsea Owens
There you go, Deb. (For her 42 Words prompt, Mystery.)
Chel Owens 
You packed a lot of story into those 42 words. Loved the irony!
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Thanks! I had to parse it down so much!
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It worked really well. Sometimes less is definitely better.🙂
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Wow didn’t expect that 😍 loved it…💐
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Ha! Thanks!
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Clever stuff, Chel. If the ‘guttered’ body instead of ‘gutted’ was intentional, it’s genius and I’m stealing it one day. 🙂
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Thanks, Doug! It was “body in the gutter,” but then the word count issues created the perfect slight double entendre…
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I love the way your mind works.
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😀 😀 This is why we’re blogging friends.
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She needed some inspiration.
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Sometimes, that inspiration is hiding in unexpected places.
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And not out in the open, like a body laying there. lololol!🤣🤣😂😂
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Yeah! Why would anything be that obvious? Sheesh! 😀
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😂
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sharp and succinct: I wondered where this was going — then that twist at the end; wow !
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Thanks! 🙂 It stems from a conversation I had with Deb about which one was worse to write. 😉
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you did well 🙂
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Fabulous take on the “mystery” prompt!
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😀 Thank you!!
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Excellent, Chelsea, you said so much in those few words.
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😀 Thank you, Robbie.
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