When I was growing up, we had an amazing toy store in our town. It was designed to resemble a medieval castle with multiple floors ...
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Chapter 1 A loud screeching noise interrupts my shower. Reaching for my towel, I hear it again, only louder. I get out of the shower ...
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Valan forest, Derbyshire 1984 I sat in the driver's seat of my aging Ford Granada and listened to the rain pound relentlessly on the car's ...
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My friends Kev and Nat were about to celebrate their fourteenth anniversary and wanted it to be something special, so after a few months of ...
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Blue.  Life is blue.  Existence, awakening sentience, all of it is blue.  Not black, nor shining brightness or anything, but blue.  True blue.  Once in ...
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There are very few absolutions I have in this life.  But leave it to me to ensure that I absolutely had three.  Firstly, there is ...
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Growing up in Lenora, nobody died.  Not in that quiet, dust-flavored hamlet.  Even with a humble town like ours, the small sadnesses you’d see every ...
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Friends like Quinn Perser were hard to come by, especially in Stonedirt County.  He was one of those spectacular people, the kind you meet once ...
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My name is Darren Johnson.  I’m thirty-four years old.  I have wavy black hair, blue eyes, a shaven face, and no distinct details that would ...
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It began as another dreadful day working overtime in the hellish place, we called home. Deadrock Correctional Center, a place where we send tormented souls ...
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I’m afraid of the moon.  Stupid as I know that sounds, I am, I’m afraid of the moon.  I’m afraid because of what it can ...
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“That can’t be what I think it is,” I said out loud to myself. My friends and I had decided to get together at my ...
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