Goodreads asked Karla Brandenburg:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Karla Brandenburg When I was a kid, I lived near a marshy area and we would ice skate there in the winter. Along the roadside of the marsh, there were several partial cement walls that were never completed. It was the first mystery I noticed. Logically, I could guess that putting foundations in a marsh wasn't the best idea, since they sank and leaned, but I actually went to the Village Hall to find out who built them. Seems like a contractor would have done some preparation before trying to build on marshy land. My imagination took me all kinds of places with why they stopped building, why they built there in the first place. I never did get an answer, and that marshland is now landscaped as "wetland." The cement walls are long gone, but I could definitely see them incorporated into a book.

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