The morning broke like every other in the small Midwestern town of Porterville: quiet and peaceful. It's a farming community where church basement potlucks and Sunday drives in the country are the main sources of entertainment. Nothing much ever happened there until the arrival of the visitor. 

     Eighty-six year old resident Ima Plummer could not have imagined how her day would end when she awoke that fateful Wednesday. 

     You won't want to stop reading. THE VISITOR is a 4927 word, around 20 pages, suspense-thriller short story.