Well of Darkness

Well of Darkness

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This is the synopsis I wrote back in 2007 when I thought I had finally finished the 'novel'. Ten years later, today (11th December 2017), mistakes glare at me and I wonder who I was at the time. Still new to writing short stories, the ones with twists in the tale, but never quite made it. This is my second attempt to write more than five thousand words. I'm hoping pasting will show my errors. It doesn't. Here is what I edited the synopsis to today: This is a story about loss. It is not a sad story. It begins, at a point in the future, during the hot summer of 1978. A woman places a child inside a car and sets the car alight. The two main characters are Linda Watson and Julie Fulham. They never meet. We follow them from childhood into marriage, and the birth of their first child. Julie's two-year-old son, Jamie, is snatched from her car. Linda's sanity is shoved into early Alzheimer's when her teenage son, Daniel, leaves her. Linda's death in 2000 has far reaching consequences for Daniel.
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