Find Frank Excerpt [Story #19]
A book within a book.
In my forthcoming novel, we find a maleficent mystery surrounding a children's book called Find Frank. An investigative reporter tries to unearth the truth behind its sinister pages while getting to the bottom of a year-long goose chase to find the source of a new and deadly street drug.
Painting by Kali Kolz, especially for Kate Bitter's forthcoming novel, Find FrankThe first pages of the children's book contain the following rhyme:
Meet Frank.
Where will he go? Nobody knows.Over hill and rock and lakeThrough desert and snow, and rivers that flowRed as a coral snake.
He’s a fellow who might, take a trip at nightOr wander all day in the dale.Try to catch sight of our adventurous sprite
As you follow him down the trail.
Sounds innocent enough, right? That's what they want you to think...
Kate Bitters is a freelance writer, founder of Click Clack Writing, and author of Elmer Left and Ten Thousand Lines. She is writing a story a week in 2015-2016 on the Bitter Blog. Subscribe to follow her journey.
In my forthcoming novel, we find a maleficent mystery surrounding a children's book called Find Frank. An investigative reporter tries to unearth the truth behind its sinister pages while getting to the bottom of a year-long goose chase to find the source of a new and deadly street drug.
Painting by Kali Kolz, especially for Kate Bitter's forthcoming novel, Find FrankThe first pages of the children's book contain the following rhyme:Meet Frank.
Where will he go? Nobody knows.Over hill and rock and lakeThrough desert and snow, and rivers that flowRed as a coral snake.
He’s a fellow who might, take a trip at nightOr wander all day in the dale.Try to catch sight of our adventurous sprite
As you follow him down the trail.
Sounds innocent enough, right? That's what they want you to think...
Kate Bitters is a freelance writer, founder of Click Clack Writing, and author of Elmer Left and Ten Thousand Lines. She is writing a story a week in 2015-2016 on the Bitter Blog. Subscribe to follow her journey.
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