STORY STARTER
Your main character is a housekeeper working in a stately home. At breakfast one day, they overhear a terrible secret that they feel they cannot keep to themself.
Try to keep the readers in suspense for as long as possible while taking them on your character's journey as they decide what to do, or who to tell.
She Did NOT
I arrived at the mansion at the same time I do everyday - of the week and weekend. Mansions are never fully clean at any given time, as Mrs. Hendrix likes to remind me. I know she’s right; the home is so big, but the time I clean from one end to another, it’s already dirty again, from the kids, the dog, the parents, or, god forbid, the dust.
I always start at the front of the house and make my way back, but I had an organizing project in the back that I wanted to review before getting started. Maybe that’s why Mrs. Hendrix was speaking so freely, and boastfully, as if no one was around to hear her.
UNFINISHED!!!