Mystery – May 16

“I had the presence of mind at that minute to think, that though I could not help them, it might be that they might help me; so I brought together all the dry wood I could get at hand, and making a good handsome pile, I set it on fire upon the hill.”

On this date in Daniel Defoe‘s 1683, Robinson Crusoe heard gunfire after having lived without human contact for a quarter-century.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is wrong about his/her belief that essential help is on the way.

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