Daily, genre-inspired writing prompts for authors, teachers, and journaling

Mystery – April 20

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
Edgar Allan Poe in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the prototypical detective story that first appeared in print on this date in 1841.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must suffer an insufferably incompetent law enforcement authority.

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