Story Note #2: When Routine Becomes the Perfect Disguise
One of the biggest misconceptions about suspense is that it relies on chaos. We often imagine terrifying stories as loud,…
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Inner Thought: The Characters That Never Betray Themselves
One of my favorite things a story can do isn’t surprise me with a plot twist. It’s surprise me by…
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CASE FILE 00018 – She Just Moved Into Town… But Everyone Already Knew Her
STATUS: ACTIVE CLASSIFICATION: INTERNAL RECORD CLEARANCE LEVEL: RESTRICTED Layla Bennett accepted the teaching position believing she was leaving her old…
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CASE FILE 00017 – She Wrote Obituaries For 11 Years… Then the Dead Started Correcting Her
STATUS: ACTIVE CLASSIFICATION: INTERNAL RECORD CLEARANCE LEVEL: RESTRICTED For eleven years, Sarah Whitmore believed the dead were the easiest people…
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Every Case File Begins With Something That Doesn’t Fit
One of the biggest misconceptions about mysteries is that they begin with a crime. They don’t. Long before a detective…