One triplet is drawn into a mystery involving her sisters after one of them almost kills a man and one of them seems to go missing.
Music: “Cyberjazz Nights” by Tao & Sound
Video description
Video Description: “The Case of the Absent Triplet” Trailer. Duration, 42 seconds. “Cyberjazz Nights” by Tao & Sound. Digital drawing. Three women with identical features seen from waist up looking forward. From left to right. A woman with arms crossed, smiling and with her hair in a high pony tail. A woman with shoulder-length hair styled in waves, wearing a pinstripe suit. A woman with loose shoulder-length hair with her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker. Behind them, tilted is the hazy outline of their image with the faces of the two women at right and middle blurred out. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Mystery,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “One triplet is drawn into a mystery involving her sisters after one of them almost kills a man and one of them seems to go missing.” Lines from the story appear in sequence at center and bottom: “‘Kat, our sister is missing. She’s gone. That’s the truth.’ ‘Okay, then let’s walk back and go see her for ourselves.’ ‘It’s not her.’ ‘What’s not who?’ ‘That woman. That woman isn’t Trish. She’s a decoy.’ Kat closed her eyes and rubbed her brow. ‘A decoy.’ ‘You were in the same room with her, talked to her, you didn’t notice it wasn’t her?’” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For the tenth year, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
March Base Element:
🔍🕵🏽♀️ MYSTERY MARCH! 🗝🧩
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for March: Mystery
Fusion Element: Chicken nuggets
The mystery genre is a daunting one. This story developed as I brainstormed possible crimes and clues and endings that began with a woman walking into an office and seeing what appears to be a dead body with knife sticking out of his back.
Rather than a whodunnit, I eventually settled on a who’s who, by having the main character be one of three identical sisters, and the only one who isn’t involved in the family business—which apparently isn’t a completely honest business. At first, the sisters angle just made it easier to explain why the main character had been brought in to deal with what appears to be a murder. But there is no actual murder. So then, what our protagonist solving? Things aren’t as they seem in a mystery. The clues are all there, but their apparent meanings at the story’s outset may not be their actual meaning. Or maybe what seem like clues don’t mean anything to the ultimate mystery at all.
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Case of the Absent Triplet,” from a sketch to the final image.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 21 seconds. Digital drawing. Three women with identical features seen from waist up looking forward. From left to right. A woman with arms crossed, smiling and with her hair in a high pony tail. A woman with shoulder-length hair styled in waves, wearing a pinstripe suit. A woman with loose shoulder-length hair with her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker. Behind them, tilted is the hazy outline of their image with the faces of the two women at right and middle blurred out. Text at top reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a pencil sketch of a human outline at center. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at top right. All the text and the final image fade to show the full starting sketch. The video then transitions through several images showing the sketching of the main figures; then the inking, the laying down of base colors, the addition of a color gradient as a background, and finally, the addition of shadows, highlights, and textures to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Case of the Absent Triplet” appears at top. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears at bottom center throughout.
Genre: Mystery
Tags: Gertrude, Identical, Kat, Missing, Patricia, Sisters, Stab, Trina, Triplets, Trish, Trudy
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