Day 1 of FlashNano2023 to prompts. This prompt was they found one body when looking for another.

"He's asleep." The bedroom door closed.

 

Jake rolled over in his bed. He'd fooled his father and mother. He was so angry at how they had dragged him out of Uncle Jim's house.

 

They'd yelled that Jake was too young at nine to hear about bodies being found, a skeleton not the a young girl they were looking for.

Jake loved listening to Uncle Jim's stories of when he was a policeman: DNA, fingerprints, a shoot out, the way to question a suspect, the bank robbers that were caught in a warehouse.

 

His father was always talking about Jake taking over his business when he grew up. The Harvard then the Harvard B School where his father had gone. Learn business, his father said.

 

Now Jake was forbidden to visit Uncle Jim. Auntie Anne always had home made cookies. She had white hair. She said, "you men can talk without me."

 

Jake saw the photos on the mantle of Jim in uniform before he retired. There were several some from before Uncle Jim went bald.

He fell asleep and dreamed about the day he would be a cop like Uncle Jim.