Colin’s probation officer (don’t ask it was a long day) has always been Maggie Jones. Mostly because none of the other probation officers would take him. She was convinced that Colin was a harmless homeless man who suffered from some sort of delusional dysfunction.

Maggie Jones frequently tried to have Colin acknowledge that there was no bright red door to his imaginary office. He was not a detective. He had not saved the world.

Then she was kidnapped by a refugee wizard on the run from the time police. It is that sort of thing that makes a person wonder if they are in the right job. Not to mention entertaining the nation that Blaze is telling the truth.

Pictured: The bright red door (only visible to some) that leads to Colin Blaze’s office.

Colin Blaze is a (possibly private) detective cursed by a witch to have only cases that no right-thinking person would ever believe were real. The witch hoped that Blaze would be discredited and forced to quit. Instead, Blaze is the champion of the bizarre and marginalised oddities of London.

Colin Blaze’s probation officer (don’t ask it was a long day) has always been Maggie Jones. Mostly because none of the other probation officers would take him. Jones struggles to help her deluded and homeless client not least of all because of his gift of simply vanishing off the face of the planet before returning with a ridiculous and unbelievable story. Her determination to give mundane explanations to the events that surround Blaze is in a constant battle with the notion that maybe he is telling the truth.

If you publish a story based on this prompt, we’d love to read it. You can find a form to share your story link under the comments. Assuming of course your blog did not auto ping us as many do. The point is, please tell us about your stories because we want to read them.

This prompt features a character (Colin Blaze) from a shared and Open Source character collection. You are free to use Colin Blaze in any way so long as you give us appropriate credit. I (Matt) am longing to see the fiction that gets written about Blaze. I’m literally begging you to post a story or two about this strange detective.