Aromatic tobacco smoke circled his head—a cloud of knowing. The Great Detective regarded me with amusement. “You know my methods. All the clues are there. What do you see?”
He could be an annoying git. “Two rickshaws,” I muttered,
“And?”
“Nothing.”
“Exactly. Two rickshaws, sans drivers and passengers. And a river sans sampans. Where did they all go? The young ladies have disappeared down-river with the drivers in the sampan.” He puffed smugly on his calabash pipe. “The drivers were, in fact, lovers. This is a double elopement.”
Git! “Umm, very clever. But shouldn’t we check whether they’ve just drowned?”
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
Neil MacDonald Author 
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Smartarse sidekick, right?
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Nice one.
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Thanks so much
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Dear Neil,
Deductive reasoning might not be the detective’s gift. 😉 Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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The litt;e grey ce;lls, they are incomparable. Thanks, Rochelle
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The git’s romantic theory is a bit thin, best to check. Lovely word ‘git’.
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Thanks so much, Jilly.
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The detective should be a writer–he has a great imagination!
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It has led him already to many triumphs
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Easy to overlook the most obvious answer.
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When all other possibilities are exhausted, what remains, however unbelievable, must be true
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Funny what detectives — and good writers! – can do with just a few details 🙂
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He spun a plaussible yarn
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They say KISS (keep it simple, stupid) and your story exemplifies that premise.
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Simple can be very very complicated
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Hahaha oh the great detective with his smug attitude. Sherlock should listen to his Holmes … might be right in this case
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The possibilities are endless
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What an arrogant detective. Love the cloud of knowing.
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Thanks so much
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That’s quite a leap for The Great Detective. There may be a difference between clues and actual evidence.
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The Great Detective sees what others can’t
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Where is the crime? A missing person conundrum–murder or suicide?
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Oh there must be a crime. The Great Detective is on the case
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Very clever! I apologize to you and everyone else for missing the word requirement rule. A stupid oversight!
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Thanks very much
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Ha this made me smile, thanks Neil 😅
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Thanks so much
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i suppose we’ll find out what happened to them soon enough. 🙂
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Like many things in the real world, we may never know
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The Great Detective has quite an imagination. He needs to focus on evidence I think. Intriguing!
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The Great Detective always says “Facts are merely everything that is the case. Truth is the connection between them”
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Wow, two very different points of view!
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Yup. Everyone’s a critic
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Well, at least he’s using his brain and doing the math. Things are often more than what they seem.
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Or, perhaps in his case, less
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😁
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