Unfinished Page

THE UNFINISHED PAGE

Henrik Lindberg used to be a writer. Now he's a cautionary tale - one bad review away from finished, one sleepless night from something worse.

Then the pages start writing themselves.

Nineteen pages appear overnight that Henrik has no memory of typing - the best work he's done in years, a story about a man in a burlap mask who's been waiting a long time to collect. There's mud on his boots he can't explain. A footprint on the bedroom carpet, inches from where his wife sleeps. And somewhere across town, the critic who destroyed his career is about to meet the thing living in Henrik's manuscript - face to face, in the dark, alone.

Henrik tells himself it's a coincidence. Then a second body turns up. Then a third.

As the killings mount and the blackouts stretch longer, Henrik has to face the possibility that he isn't losing his grip on the story - he's losing his grip on himself, and something buried thirty years deep, in a cold field outside a village he swore he'd forgotten, is finally getting free.

Some manuscripts don't want to be finished. Some just want to be true.