Creative writing prompt

It was the one thing he coveted most, but six-year-old David Brewer didn't cry when he placed his oversized, plush Tyrannosaurus Rex into the Dumpster in his family's driveway. The charred, stuffed dinosaur sat atop piles of what was once the Brewer family's keepsakes. David hid his face in his mother's side as she stood sullen and weak from the evening's terror.

A fire had ravaged the Brewer home, leaving nothing but ash and burned memories in its wake. How could something like this happen? The Fire Marshal shook his head when he saw what had started the fire. He pointed to a broken bottle in the still burning soot and said, "arson."

The Brewer family is the latest victim of a string of arson fires that has left nearly 50 people in Philadelphia homeless since early December.

The police have no suspects because the targets of the fires appear to be random, said Philadelphia Chief of Police Chuck Branson.