Writing Challenge - Day 24

To all who are reading this,

We are less than seven days away from finishing this madcap journey of fiction, but it won't deter me! Last night, I wrote TWO posts, and then a chapter of my latest WIP, which will be the second book in a YA trilogy!

More of that later - on with the fiction!

Yours, with eternal ink,

Zoe

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JUNE PROMPTS YOU TO... WRITING CHALLENGEDAY 24. - TOURIST

The old train station had become a tourist trap. For hundreds of people, all year around, they would be escorted on tours, shown the battered engine sheds, walked alongside the rusted tracks, and have their photographs taken next to the engines in various states of disrepair. Their smiles would be plastered on - happy memories to show family and friends back home. None of them saw the old conductor beside them.

David Rates had been a first-rate conductor in his time. Over the years, he earned the title of 'Employee of the Month' several times over. He had shining eyes, an honest smile, a cheerful disposition. He had been working on the railway since he was a boy of ten, and by the time he was forty-nine, he had gained the trust of workers and loyal customers alike.

David Rates had a dark side that nobody knew about. When things went missing from the luggage racks, passengers belongings and even the staff rooms, he was never suspected. Nobody would have thought that the smartly dressed man would have done anything of the sort.

A week or so later, newspaper articles would show the victim of theft, but theft wasn't what the reporters focused upon. Murder was the hot topic. There would be no consistency though, apart from they had all been passengers who had left and returned on the Rickland Express.

David Rates had been clumsy. He had been caught, and he had also made the decision to take his old life. They had found his body hanging in the Rickland Express engine shed.

The stories say that David Rates haunts the station, looking after it as it fell into disrepair. As much as he loved killing, he loved his trains more so.

COPYRIGHT - ZOE ADAMS (2014)
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