Teresa’s challenge details can be found here: Finish the Story # 8, 25 August 2018.
The rules:
- Copy the story below as it appears when you receive it (and the rules please)
- Add somehow to the story in which ever style and length you choose
- Tag only 1 person
- If you choose to not participate or finish the story, please comment/tag the original post here so we know.
Iain Kelly tagged me to continue this “story blog hop” and I resisted the temptation to finish it. However, I did not resist the temptation to make it weird.
Here’s the tale thus far:
PART ONE – by Teresa @ The Haunted Wordsmith
After serving thirty-five years in the military, Austin retired to a quiet little town in the middle of the Catskills. He had saved money every month since he enlisted so that he would never have to work another day when he left. His plan worked, but now he found life boring and uneventful. Every morning he walked down to Jennie’s Diner for coffee and a little conversation, then over to the library where he would whittle away the day. Three months of this routine and he was going stir crazy. That was until a strange woman asked if he had ever considered writing a book.
“I never really thought about it,” Austin said, flipping through a magazine.
“I have a story to tell,” the woman said, “and I have a good sense about people. You are the right person to tell my story.”
“Um, I’ve never written before. I wouldn’t even know where to start.”
“Well then, it’s a good thing I do. Meet me here tomorrow and we’ll start.”
She disappeared before he could even answer. He looked around, but she was nowhere. Austin shrugged. He would be at the library the next day anyway, maybe he would be able to ask more about what she wanted…and why him.
The next day, as the grandfather clock rang eleven, the woman tapped Austin on the shoulder.
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