For financial and social reasons, Lynn is working to arrange for memory-impaired brother to move into a local home for the memory-impaired. One of the clearest obstacles for the move is that the home of her choice doesn't have space for another resident. They expect to have a place fairly soon but not yet. That got me to thinking about constructing a crime story about a killer who wanted a space in an old folks' home and committed a murder to make one.
I may have been watching too many crime shows. Today, I saw a cardinal land in some neighbors' yard and eat some of their bird seed. But we want all the birds to come to our yard. Could a crime story about jealous bird watching that leads to murder of the competition sell? I just looked up "What did Cain kill Abel?" and found that the Lord looked with favor upon Abel's offering but not Cain's and drove Cain into a murderous rage. I am working to accept that some birds are going to our neighbors' offering and rejecting ours.
