Mocking Bird

Missing Mocking Birds

The beginning

Police tape lines the park just inside the quiet town, outside the quiet trailer park of Black Marsh. Everyone in the small town knew eachother, which ment that word spread very quickly. Come to think of it, almost everyone in the small town were of the 'older' generation and it almost seemed like some strange kind of a retirement village, -or town- if that makes sense. The population only grew smaller and smaller in this town with every year that passed, since the town's grad students had all started to leave and never to return, going God knows where and doing who knows what, starting a family where the same cycle would only repeat never to be broken. People just weren't that interested in settling down like their grandparents once had, laying down roots and marrying young, having children who would then continue on with that same repetitive ritual, only never to leave. This was one of the many reasons for the confusion during the day the first child went missing, right from under the town's nose. With no tall buildings, people began to panic, the population just barely skimmed 700. People talked, and earlier curfews were inforced and children were no longer aloud to leave their guardians sides. How could this have happened? The town was so small and had mostly been fresh green praries, There were hardly any tall buildings in site, and the few that did stand in the small town were not so much tall as they were large. It just didn't add up, this wasn't the kind of place where one would expect such tragity to occur, it was the kind of place where on warm sunny days families would pack up and take their children out to the park and go camping, run free, where tourists would come for summer fun to get away and not to be abducted! Nobody understood how or why this terrible tragity had occurred. By the time the police had found their first clue, the authorities had no choice but to eliminate any minor possibilities such as the small child had simply gotten lost or wondered off. His parents had sworn that he wouldn't have willingly taken a strangers hand, infact they repeatedly argued that they had warned him of the 3 most important rules. You've got the Never take candy from strangers rule, the Look both ways before you cross the street, and Never ever under any circumstance enter a strangers vehicle or house no matter what the circumstance. In the start, the towns folk all thought the child would return in a short few days and it would all be over in the blink of an eye, but this was the exact opposite and this was just the beginning.

Hillbilly news broadcast

A blurry screen dimly flickers to an on screen revealing the title 'channel 3 news'. An elderly white haired man with facial hair and a thick southern accent comes into view looking confused and puzzled.

"We interrupt you daytime television for an emergency broadcast, yet another two children disappear.
Officials say the name and descriptions of the two young children are female Cassie Burkman her older brother Thomas -Tommie- Burkman. The parents say Cassie, age 6 left the house last wearing pink sunglasses, a small white butterfly sundress and flipflop sandals, described to be at least 3'7 with blue eyes, approximately 55 pounds with long brown hair.
And Tommie, age 13, at least 5'3, dressed in a bright blue sweater and skinny jeans with yellow Nike shoes, light tan and bald with brown eyes.

Now locals and officials are left to wonder, who this mysterious kidnapper is and where will the next child go missing, And will it be to late to stop?"

"-and I've been here for a - for a good 52 years born and raised but never seen somethin' like this happen. Never, 'cause in a little place like this these things just don't happen"

The camera then shifts to show a young colored woman with neat blonde hair clutching her purse with both hands shaking her head slowly with her voice a raspy whisper.

"It unbelievable, it really is! When the first child went missing I just assumed - well me and the whole town really I guess, were thinkin' Oh he'll be back; he just maybe walked to a friend's place real late n' forgot to tell 'is parents 'er somethin' but now that there's two more gone I just - I don't know how to react-".