Idea of the Day-The Slender Trees

The Slender Trees (Story Idea)

New Littleton, Pennsylvania. 
When police detective Michael Huntington first moved here in 2005, he knew it would be the right place. Nice location, clean, good-sized town, everything a man could wish for. His wife loved it, too. She needed a good place to raise their unborn child. Everything seemed just fine in the town nicknamed "The Heart of All Good."

But those times have changed.

The strong-willed Detective left the agency when he accidentally shot a small girl. She was five years old, and she was in the middle of a crime scene. A drug smuggler was running around and ran into Detective Huntington, right next to the girl's house. The Smuggler used the girl as a human shield and she got the best of Michael's gunshot. He left the agency the next day, five days before his wife died in a car crash.

Four years later, Michael is raising his small child in the same town, not able to bring himself to leave. He's a mailman now, and his son, Jamie, is the only human he loves. 

But New Littleton has changed, too.

People are disappearing, right out from under the population's noses. They just...vanish. The police are on the subject harder than ever, trying to decipher strange notes on the walls of the missing people's houses. They all say different things, but most depict one strange image that looks somewhat like a tall man in a black suit. 

Michael Huntington has no interest in this topic until his boy, Jamie, disappears, too. He swore never to be a detective again, but the one person that he still cares about is gone, and he won't let that slide.

He has no knowledge of where Jamie is. No one has seen the kidnapper. He has not a clue of how the enemy took his son. But he has one place to start:

The tall man in a black suit.

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This is a story that might possibly be turned into a screenplay, or a story in first person perspective. I will post stuff from this soon. 


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