Empty your pocket/purse onto the table. Pick three random items. Place them each on a white piece of paper in front of you. (this is to enable you too see them in relative isolation) Label each piece of paper as I, 2, or 3 You must pick from one of the following – These items are clues to either A. A murder B. A fight or C. The last known activity of someone who has dissappeared. Chose from A,B or C.
Your move, writer.
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📖 Notes & analysis
Three items, three white sheets, one small crime scene made of pocket lint and possibility. Try letting the objects argue with each other before you decide guilt: a receipt, a key, a broken hair tie could just as easily plead innocent as guilty. One direction leans cozy-mystery — a fight between neighbors over something small and petty that escalated, told with humor and a detective who's more nosy than official. Another goes quietly devastating — the last known activity of someone who vanished, where the ordinariness of the objects (a gum wrapper, a bus ticket) becomes unbearable in hindsight. A third could go noir-serious — a murder clue that implicates the writer themselves, blurring the line between exercise and confession. Whichever you choose, let the paper's blankness matter; empty space around an object always makes it look more suspicious than it is.
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