my story – for all who care to hear

A little something I wrote. Feedback appreciated.

There once was a man, a traveler . His goal was to reach the other side of the world. Along the way he had to stop and wait for his second flight. It didn’t come till the next day. He saw another man in the city who had lived there for many years. But when he approached the man and asked where he was from, he just said “oh I’m just stopping by, I’m not really from here”, but he did not look like the other people from the town. Interested, the man tried to learn more about the traveler asking all sorts of questions . The odd man seemed quiet, with not many answers, but the traveler was drawn in by him for some reason. The traveler then said, “is there any way I can help you”. The odd man smiled. There was silence for what seemed like an eternity. Then the man said, “no”. Suddenly out of the blue someone walks up to the odd man and greets him like he knew him forever, someone that had lived in the town. The traveler asks, “do you live in this town?” . The odd man says, “yes, for now, unfortunately”. At this point the traveler was afraid, for this man had said he was just stopping by, but he had obviously lived there for a while. The traveler turned around and was about to call 911 to report him to a mental facility, but before he could the man was gone.