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 Behind The Tape 
Thursday, 20 January 2011


     The clouds raced across the sky and moonlight danced over her bleached skull. It dappled the leaves where clusters of bones lay like a child's pile of discarded building blocks. A forest of tiny pink flags stood in the brush to mark her bones.  Bits of a brassy blond wig bearded a jaw embedded in the folds of a wet denim shirt. The bones of her foot were neatly bagged in a soggy sock pressed in the mud beside a ragged tennis shoe. Like a tiny tank, a gray roly poly pill bug crawled along her femur. Empty orbits of her skull stared back at me as I adusted the camera on the tripod. A January wind blew hair in my eyes while I focused the camera in the dark.  And her patient stare gazed back through the lens as I pushed the button. 

 

POSTED BY: forensicfarmgirl AT 10:47 am   |  Permalink   |  6 Comments  |  E-mail this
Comments:
Great prose. I can picture it. How long (in non-Television magic time) will it take for an ID on someone that is just bones?
Posted by CeeCee on 01/20/2011 17:21:23
It depends. Some still have their ID on them so it doesn't take as long. (grin) They use dental records, but some are never identified.
Posted by forensicfarmgirl on 01/20/2011 22:31:39
You really have a wonderful writing gift. You know, when you retire, hahaha, you can fund the border collie and goat/sheep habit with writing and selling the books. Maybe even ebooks, too. Highly recommend it.
Posted by Sue on 01/24/2011 12:33:24
Other Half laughs at my blogging, but I keep telling him that one day I will support us and the farm with my writing!
Posted by forensicfarmgirl on 01/24/2011 14:12:54
Uuhhhhh where is the rest of the story? I feel robbed...like she was of her life. One paragraph? Enough to hook me and make me wonder 'who', 'why', 'when' then you leave it hanging there like a dangling participle. *sobbing*
Posted by Carolynn on 01/24/2011 23:27:46
Sorry! Yep, that is so often my involvement in their lives - one paragraph, at the end. Very sad.
Posted by forensicfarmgirl on 01/26/2011 18:55:25

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