a Work in Progress

     FBI Special Agent Turner Brinks was watching the newscast of the shooting massacre when his desk phone ringed. He was expecting the call, usually happens after a major event such as this. Oh, no. He was not going out to Orlando, Florida.

     He would be expected to handle some of the cases offloaded to minor divisions and agents when other events take center front stage of FBI's and other agencies's attention. He wasn't the kind of field agent who sifted through evidence or questioned survivors or witnesses. His department handled the more anomalous cases. Ever since the TV show, the moniker X-Files stuck. In all his years, he never encountered any aliens or dealt with anything supernatural. The most bizarre case to date was the finding of a Coke Cola can in an Egyptian tomb.

“Agent Brinks,” he answered.

“Hey, Ted. We’ve found another one. And this one is alive still,” said the voice on the other end of the line.

Brinks sat up to his desk with interest . . . and hope. “Another one you say? And alive? That makes a change.

I’ll be there tomorrow morning.”

     On the red-eye flight to Orlando, Agent Brinks reviewed relevant files from previous incidents. Unknown to most of the public and common in the aftermath of mass shootings, some bodies go unidentified. Almost always, after some searching or time, identification is made either by a worried friend, a searching family member, or through archived medical or dental records. What was unusual about his unidentified dead bodies is that each one wore a tiny tattoo on the inside of their wrists and each was found at the scene of some mass shooting. One in Paris, France, two at San Bernardino, one at Virginia Tech, the first one was found in Killeen,Texas back in 1991. He tried searching known databases and shopping around ink parlors but no match or recognition was made on the tattoo. Brinks hoped this survivor may prove to be the breakthrough he needed.

I'll stop here. I know the reason and outcome but wonder which medium best fits: script, screenplay, novel, or short story.