SAND

The taxi pulled up at the end of dirt track. Gabi Henriksen got out and asked the driver to wait.

She walked over to the figure standing at the edge of the cliff. The wind blustered, blowing her blonde hair across her face. The waves crashed onto the rocks at the foot of the sheer drop.

‘I thought I might find you here,’ she said.

Detective Anders Sand turned and gave his young partner a sad smile. ‘You are getting to know me then.’

‘Do you want to know?’

‘Guilty?’ Sand said. He turned and looked back at the jagged rocks below.

Gabi nodded. ‘Sexual assault and rape. Sentencing in two weeks.’

‘He’ll get ten and be out in five.’

‘The judge said he would take into account the suicide.’

‘It should be a murder conviction. Hanne may have jumped off this cliff, but it was him that drove her to it.’

They stared at the jagged rocks and the swirling sea.

‘I have a taxi waiting,’ Gabi said.

‘You take it. I’ll make my own way back.’

Gabi left him standing staring out over the cliff into the clear blue abyss.


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Written as part of Sunday Photo Fiction. Write a story of around 200 words based on the photo prompt given (above). Hosted by Al Forbes. For more details visit HERE.

To read more stories based on this week’s prompt, visit HERE.

This month I am taking part in the A to Z Challenge 2017 – a post each day based on the letters of the alphabet and a theme. My story is a case featuring Detectives Anders Sand and Gabi Henriksen. You can visit my A TO Z CHALLENGE 2017 page here to read the story.

As this challenge will take up a lot of my blogging time I may not get round to commenting on everyone’s posts, but I hope to find time to read all your stories as usual, and still be able to participate in Sunday Photo Fiction each week.

38 responses to “SAND”

  1. Love this, Iain, excellent piece of writing, a huge story told so succinctly.

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    1. Thank you, very kind.

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  2. Good luck with the challenge. I am deep into a novel, so I rarely get a chance to even pop my head up.

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    1. Thanks, I’m using this as a break having got to the end of a very tough first draft before I go back and start rewriting and editing. Good to take a rest and think about something else to regain perspective.

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      1. You are welcome!

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  3. Nice use of the character and his circumstances. So we haven’t seen the last of him.

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    1. Oh no, he’s hanging around for a while yet.

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  4. I enjoy reading detective stories so this is right up there 😊

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  5. Really nice, Iain. Thanks for posting info on the Sunday Photo Fiction!

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    1. Thanks Veronica, it’s always good fun to join in with 🙂

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  6. Well, that was depressing. 😦

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    1. Some things just are.

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  7. At least I know he would not be jumping off the cliff… because he still has 25 more letters to go through!

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    1. Ha, true Annie, this is a bit of separate prequel to the main event. Thanks for reading 😉

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  8. […] Thanks to Iian and his own Sunday Photo Fiction post “Sand” […]

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  9. It’s wonderful to notice how differently every mind interprets a picture. Absolutely loved reading this piece.

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    1. Thank you, very kind. That is one of the best parts about doing these photo prompts, reading what everyone else has done.

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  10. You amaze me what you can see beyond a photo. It’s great.

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    1. Thanks John, very kind.

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  11. Ah, he pops up again. Are these two pieces the first time you’ve used this character?
    Nice job with this!

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    1. Used him once before in a completely different way, enjoying developing him.

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      1. I have had fun with the serials I’ve done here. Enjoy!

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  12. Really really liked it. This is connected with your AtoZChallenge story, right? Sand has already hooked me. Such an interstign character.

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    1. That’s right, just a little piece with the same characters to introduce them a bit more. Thank you.

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  13. Curse you Iain you have drawn me in. Now I have to slice the already thin sliver of time to read a tad larger so I can keep up!.

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    1. Apologies Joe! Alternatively you can save them all to the end of the month and read it as a whole 🙂

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      1. Oh I am just being funny Iain. 5-7 AMEDT is my prime reading time, before work.

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  14. What a wonderful story, thrilling to the end.

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  15. A lot told in such a short space. Excellently done Iain

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  16. Talk about a cliffhanger lol nicely done Iian

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