Old Man's Curse

Living to 100 years of age is a cakewalk, if you don't mind being murdered.(Note: Old Man's Curse is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #1.)This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine under the title Scintilla.In the tense days before World War II, a charismatic old man offers a boy a chance to survive anything—sickness, war, famine—and live to a ripe old age.If he does one little thing, the boy is guaranteed to live a hundred years, easy.There's just one catch:When his time's up, he'll be murdered.What would you do?* * *D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books. —Bookviews