A Fresh Start…? 2

[aldersprig]

Written to Ganet's prompt:
a package arrives in the mail the day after New Year's. (Or more mysteriously, on New Year’s Day.)
Mail didn’t usually arrive on federal holidays.
Heck, in Caroline’s neck of the woods, mail barely arrived at all.
But there it was, the mail van pulling up, the package sliding into the box.

Caroline checked her phone, her computer, and the TV (Which was playing an endless stream of “best of”) to be sure, but yes, it was New Year’s Day.  And yes, there was a package sticking out of her mailbox.

She walked down the driveway, donning three coats and two pairs of mittens, boots over two pairs of socks, and two hats, to get there.

read on…

Comments

[kelkyag]

Oh, dear, she's writing intriguing beginnings at an unsustainable pace again ...

[aldersprig]

*cough* At least I cleaned some up in November?

[kelkyag]

More love for dangling threads!

<warm fuzzies> I have a lot of sympathy for "beginnings are easier", and there will inevitably be more of those than finished stories, but ... finished stories!

[aldersprig]

Sometimes prompts just.. make ideas for me. <.<

But yeah. Finished stories!

[sauergeek]

These feel like a collective beginning, possibly of a multi-threaded story. The people who have gotten fresh starts, the company that's behind the fresh starts, and possibly the friends and relatives of the mindwiped ones trying to find out what happened to them.

I've read complex multi-threaded stories before. "Catch-22" is the one that comes to mind that did a fantastic job of it, but there are many others. This could easily be a science fiction mystery.

Specific to this one: who knew about Susan, and how'd they connect Susan to Caroline? How did they figure out what Susan might need? How did they get (something at least resembling) the Post Office to deliver it all on a federal holiday? And what's the benefactor's percentage in all of this? Two others have invoked payoffs; presumably that'll be here too.