The following story is the start of a fiction story I’m writing
based on Aggieville history. This is, in theory, chapter 1 & 2.
Sorry to leave you hanging…
The Stairway to Nowhere
by Dan Walter
CHAPTER 1
It was about 2 minutes until midnight on December 31, 2008 and there was a biting chill in the Aggieville night air. A large crowd had filled Moro Street for more than a city block, then overflowed out both north and south on Manhattan Avenue. The group included singles, couples, and families with young children – probably over 8,000 in all – and everyone seemed to be enjoying the music and festive atmosphere of this great new Manhattan, Kansas tradition: The Aggieville Ball Drop.
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