STORY STARTER
Your character is scrolling through dating apps when they come across a profile that shocks and bemuses them.
This should intrigue your readers from the start. Why is the profile so interesting, and how do things progress?
Dating Service Horror
Ten years ago I began life over; the Witness Protection Program in charge of my present destiny...
I was stalked by a boy that I met through a dating service. We made a date and then another date. However I found him unpredictable and oddly scary.I turned him down for a forth date. As predicted, this angered him, but I thought he’d simply sulk then move on. To summarize this aspect of my life, he began to call me nonstop along with slipping frightening gifts in my mailbox, One was a dead crow. As is true of stalkers his antics escalated. Terrified, I called the police who ssid without proof,they couldn’t help me.
One night after work, I came home, a nervous wreck, as usual. Unable to relax, I opened my door, turned on the light, and let out a scream. All of my walls had been slashed, with fake blood everywhere. From there, all I remember is is face, and his body over mine. He had a knife and was stabbing me over and over. I woke up in the hospital. A neighbor had seen my door open and blood all over. I’m told the ambulance was at my apartment in less than ten minutes. I woke up in the hospital two days later.I was there three month’s. On release, my stalker had not been captured.
I was put in the Witness Protection Program,
and moved to a remote town up in the Sandhills of Nebraska . The population of the town, five thousand. My apartment was above a drugstore; my job was working for the man who owned the drugstore, the pharmacist.
After two years of being a clerk and running the soda fountain, I was ready to move on and to earn more money. I had always been interested in dating services despite everything-but the town I lived in was too small. Gathering my courage, I moved twenty miles away, to the county seat to start my own business. a dating service.
With the help of my parents, I rented a small building. A year later, I was in business Another year and I had a reputation for being skilled at matching people, Very relaxed and cured of my constant fear, I ran the business alone. One night while working late, I was reading the apps, when my eyes flew wide open while chills ran all over my body, I was looking at an app my stalker had filled out.
I looked out the window but didn’t see him. Still terrified, I reached for the phone to call the sheriff. I lifted the phone but never made the call. He had his knife in my face. It was him, my stalker come to visit me.
Four mo later.
I was just released from the hospital again. Unfortunately, my stalker still hasn’t been caught. This time the police are sending me to a small town in Alaska. I never want to see a dating app again. I took a job cleaning fish.
Even stalkers join dating services.