They huddled around the prosthesis, the uniforms and their rumpled Chief. He sipped java. The plaza warmed.
Black shoe. White sock. Leather socket. Abandoned.
“Maybe someone forgot it?” Amos yawned, scratching what passed for stubble.
“Unlikely.” The Chief hiked his jeans back up, against his protruding belly. No time for protocol this morning—or a belt.
Amanda’s beefy arms folded. “Forgot their own foot?” she scoffed.
“Exactly.” The Chief panned the scene. Tourists were moving closer.
“Pack it up! You,” he nodded to Amos. “Comb the area.”
Amos raised his eyes, wide with fear.
“You don’t think it’s…?”
Sigh. “I do.”
Remember the one-armed man in The Fugitive? I’m pretty sure this belongs to his cousin, Peg Leg Pete.
Haha!
Heh. If they should find a body with only one leg, I suspect their razor-sharp deductive skills will put two and two together. Great characterization and description.
Yep. You can’t put anything past these guys!?
An enjoyable and entertaining read with so many possibilities! Nicely done 🙂
Thank you Dahlia! Definitely left the ending wide-open this time.
Dear Andrea,
You’ve left me hanging! Who or what left this leg on the sidewalk? Loved your characterization. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle! Or what…that question could take this story in a completely different direction!?
I liked the flow of this – the two word sentences leading us up the mystery feel
🙂
Really good writing with a little spice of humour in the mix.
Thank you sugar! I always preferred the cop shows that didn’t take themselves too seriously. You have to have a goofy charactrr or two to make the awful subject matter more palatable.
I wonder if it is too!
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Quite considerate,not to leave the body out, where it would muss up the plaza. ?
So intriguing.
Thank you Lisa! Definitely open-ended this time. This photo screamed criminal procedural to me.
I wonder if there is a one legged body in the vicinity
You may well be right Bjorn! I hope leaving out information in this “case” opened doors to lots of possibilities, only one of which can be true.
At least when he tracks the man down he won’t have to run very fast.
Haha! So many of the comments have made me giggle this time around!
Does the Chief suspect the prosthesis is an IED?
Wow, great idea! I think maybe they should break the huddle! I did imagine this plaza to be in a small town, where something like this doesn’t happen often, but may have happened once before.
What an air of mystery. Wonder who the leg belongs to and why the police are so perplexed. It’s really not something that someone would just ‘forget’,,, so there must be a person somewhere nearby who needs their leg… or has lost it in some nefarious encounter. I’d check those bushes over there for a body if I were them.
Good tip Jelli! I’ll be sure to tell them. ? I definitely went genre with this one!
I’d check the bushes too – ha
They don’t seem like the brightest police force 🙂
Yes, I think you may be right, Iain! I imagine the Chief as a competent man of few words, but surrounded by inexperienced help. Maybe this is too obvious a clue for even them to overlook!