Title of Work: : Dear Diary
Author of Work: : Geoffrey Robson
Date: : July 15, 2016

Plot:
Man moves from California to somewhere in the Midwest. He finds a diary in the atick of his new house he is renting.

Scene/Setting:
A man moves from Los Angeles, California to somewhere in the Midwest corn belt. H has given up a job as the manager of a car dealership to work at a connivance store. He drinks several beers and then goes to bed. Sometime later he is woken up by a large banging noise coming from the attic. When he investigates he finds the banging to be a window shutter which is being blown by gusts of wind. He discovers a small closet, at first thinking it is empty. A small diary wrapped in pick flower cloth catches his eye. He removes it and starts to read. It is the diary of a girl, starting when she was about ten years old, then there is a picture of her when she is about twelve years old, the next is at age about fifteen. He likes the little girl. He begins to hope she has gotten out of live what she wanted. The last picture is of a girl in her prom dress.

All of a sudden he jumps out the attic window, hits a tree and is killed. When we listen to the Coroner and the Sheriff talking we learn the girl, came home from the prom and found her parents dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. She eventually moved to California. We also find out that Chris Robinson, is the prime suspect in California of the murder of his wife, Johanna Laurent, the girl who used to live in the house and who is pictured in the diary.

Characters:
Tom Ryan (Chris Robinson) - authors main character
Coroner
Sheriff


Suggestions:
This was really a neat twist. I usually not much into Gothic but I liked this piece. This would make a good ending to a "love" story about Chris and Johanna. Have you done anything else with it? I know you have sort of worked on the old adage, "What goes around comes around." The whole story was very well done and had just the right amount of build up to the end.

Character Count: 1,707 (tags = 222 Characters)
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