This prompt is based on a real life incident a friend of mine told me about. Late on a summer night, in the pouring rain, my friend, her husband, and her sons drove home from a restaurant. She lives across from a cemetery. As they passed it, they noticed that someone had parked his car so the beams of the headlights fell on a grave. The person was digging.
There’s more to the story, but I don’t want to ruin your inspiration. You could use this first line for crime fiction, family drama, or speculative fiction. You could even use it for a humorous story. Let me hear where your imagination takes you!
On a dark, rainy night, a man digs in a cemetery and …
The photo caught my attention because it looks like a still from a classic film noir, a style of movie I love. Who is the woman? Who is the man behind her? Or is it a man? Is the story set in the 1940’s? Could it take place now? How would you use this photo to inspire a story?
