Amelia's New Plan

In November of 2008, nearly a year after our last writing project, our group finally held another round. This time, led by my brother, we engaged in a "spontaneous combustion" round. Basically, he announced the round and then we had a short time to write a small story and submit it. This was quite fun, and it was nice to not have the whole process drawn out over several weeks. At the time I was interested in Amelia Earhart and wondered what had happened to her when she and her navigator disappeared in July of 1937. I whipped up this tiny story in one day, and fully intended to return to it at a later time. (Which I did, and I'll share that with you in a later post.) In my mind this was just the beginning of a larger story, and served only to whet the reader's appetite. Amelia's New Planby Rusty Keele The steely click of the hand gun pointed at her back caused Amelia to think of Miami. It had been one of those heart warming events, where she felt like she was on top of the world, and…