Goodreads asked Cheri Vause:

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

Cheri Vause Every time we crossed the bridge from our house into the town of Astoria, we always saw the same man walking in the same direction, no matter what time of day it was. One afternoon I said, "Must be a glitch in the Matrix," to which my kids became uneasy. I was trying to be amusing, but it unsettled them. It's a mystery that would fall under SF rather than thriller or mystery alone. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And Twain was right. If I wrote a story about it, the whole thing would have to make sense. True life doesn't.

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