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These responses are based upon where the witness was, the emotional state they were in, their gender, their race, their upbringing, their prejudices and so much more play into what a witness sees at the time of a crime. At what they perceive. Their perception of what actually happened.

Say the crime was a rape inside a crowded bar. Everyone sees it and a lone man tries to stop it. The rape isn’t what most expect. A group of men decide to rape a young boy for beating them at a game of pool. They considered him to be a hustler and want payback.

The lone man does a decent job of almost stopping it, but the rapists are too many and too angry. They end up killing the lone man. Still, no one moves but several record it on their phones and only one person calls 911.

When the cops arrive, they have a plethora of information. Twenty or more people witnessed the rape and the murder. How many of their statements do you think matched one another? In the real world very few would match up. The hair color of the men would be all over the place, the timeline, including the faces. Nothing will be the same nor will the smartphone videos be much good.

Each witness will give a statement based upon their perception. The mean old man in the back thinks the boy deserved it. The young girls were excited over the violence. Several patrons puked. Fear, anxiety, excitement, glee and hatred will fill their statements. All based upon who they are, not what really happened.

If you are a storyteller this would provide you with a rich field of storylines to choose from. Why did the old man in the back think the young hustler deserved to be raped? Why did he think the man who interfered was stupid? Why didn’t he do something?

Then again, why did the young women stand and watch in fascination? Why is their version filled with excitement and not horror? Why did only one person call 911 and who are they? 

The list goes on and on. All based upon how those in the bar perceived the events. 

This is what the new eBook we are using in our competition is really based on. The eBook Ordinary to Extra-Ordinary is a series of stories based on the premise that ordinary events can turn extraordinary in a heartbeat. These events will be told to you from the perception of the storyteller and their characters. The stories will go across all genres.

One of those stories is a piece of erotica brought to you by my good friend Miranda Cummings. It is titled Sensual Dishes. A story about how a man returns home to find his wife washing dishes and decides he wants her. It is an excellent piece of erotica and the first enmity in the eBook. It filled the need for erotica, so the other genres are now open.

I wonder who will fill the one for supernatural. Will there be horror stories or romances or science fiction. Will someone take on the western genre? Or a children’s’ version? 

This is our first writing contest. I am a bit giddy over it. I get to read all the entries. I get to edit the final winners. What’s even more fun to me is there are flash fiction entries. I asked that flash fiction be a part of this. I find the category fascinating. How to say so much with only a few words. In this contest of crafting something extraordinary from an ordinary event it is even more so to me.

If you haven’t checked out the contest rules and submission requirements than go to our website (https://www.pyrateheartpress.com/) and check it out. Let your creative juices flow. Look at the world through the eyes of a character you want to use to tell a story. Use their perception of events to let us know what they think is ordinary and what happens to make it extraordinary. 

I am having so much fun right now.

I’m Ross, The Editor-in-Chief at The Pyrateheart Press and I’m out.