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Mystery: July 04, 2018 Issue [#8985]

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 This week: Mysteries of the ordinary
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Quote for the week:

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
~ Boris Pasternak


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Many mystery stories revolve around strange, rare objects in exotic locations. Examples include most stories by Dan Brown or Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. While stories like "The DaVinci Code" or "Relic" are exciting, it is also fun to read a story centered around seemingly ordinary objects.

A story centered around ordinary objects or places gives the author a greater variety of settings and characters. Your story does not have to take place in a museum or mansion in Rome, Paris, or New York. Your story can be set in your own home town if you like, and your characters can be people similar to you and your family and friends.

There are many ways you can make an ordinary object the center of a story:

Maybe the object is not as ordinary as it seems. Jewels, money, or drugs might be hidden in the lining of an old coat.

Maybe there is nothing special about the object itself, but its location or some other characteristic might be central to the story. A book might be out of its normal place on a book shelf or a coffee cup in the wrong cupboard. Remember the tense scene in "Sleeping With the Enemy" where the towels which had been carelessly thrown on the rack were suddenly hanging straight? *Shock2*

Sometimes the absence of an expected object is the mystery. A gun might be missing from a gun rack or a pair of shoes missing from a closet. The home of a family with several young children might not contain any toys.

Of course you do not have to limit your story to objects within your house. Imagine you came home and someone had torn several plants out of your garden. Or maybe it might even be more disturbing if you found new plants you did not remember planting!

Something to try: Look around your home for "ordinary" objects that could become an important clue in a mystery story.



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