The Assassin - story in Big Pulp
Big Pulp has published my flash-fiction short story, SCENT AND SOUND: THE ASSASSIN.
The scent always led from one building to another, and in between would be a corpse. Sometimes there’d be several, all stinking of death and fennel. They never could find his trail, and so they ascribed super-powers to him...
This story originated in a writing challenge; a group of us exchanged story-seeds and then wrote stories for them.
The seed (which contains spoilers) is whited out... it'll show up if you highlight it with your cursor.
So here's the seed on which the story was built:
- An assassin/ spy/ secret agent who can alter his/ her scent as a disguise
- Someone without a nose.
As it happens, the person who provided this challenge-seed was Justin Whitney - the same Clarion-mate who adapted my story The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings into the film Rumpled.
The scent always led from one building to another, and in between would be a corpse. Sometimes there’d be several, all stinking of death and fennel. They never could find his trail, and so they ascribed super-powers to him...
This story originated in a writing challenge; a group of us exchanged story-seeds and then wrote stories for them.
The seed (which contains spoilers) is whited out... it'll show up if you highlight it with your cursor.
So here's the seed on which the story was built:
- An assassin/ spy/ secret agent who can alter his/ her scent as a disguise
- Someone without a nose.
As it happens, the person who provided this challenge-seed was Justin Whitney - the same Clarion-mate who adapted my story The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings into the film Rumpled.