Bits and pieces.
It is vile, tasteless, nasty, heartless and downright inhuman to take a real life tragedy and devise a horror tale around it. So, without further ado, here's one I prepared earlier.
In the UK, body parts have started appearing in fields. Police are piecing together what has happened, but it is clear that someone has been murdered gradually, a bit at a time. Enough there to start a horror story anyway, but it develops. Apparently they can't tell the shoe size of the victim with any certainty, despite having a foot, and can't be sure of the ethnicity. There seems to be some strangeness about the skin.
Body parts, apparently human but with some oddities, collected by authorities like a grisly jigsaw and presumably placed together on a slab somewhere.
Get your writing organs ready - what happens when all the parts are in one place? Who dismembered the corpse and why did they spread the parts so far apart? What are they doing to prevent reassembly and why? Which is the last part to be found? Who has it?
Real life is stranger than fiction, it's often said. It can be more horrific, too.
There's serious competition out there, not from other writers but from reality. Fight back!
