TRAGEDY AT TUCKAHOE LAKE Ronny was impressed- they were great at telling his tale. âWe only save the BEST campfire story for the end,â Stan told the wide-eyed kids as he leaned in, flames reflecting off his glasses. âAre you all SURE you can handle it? Itâs pretty scary.â Hannah, […]
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Cora ran home from school that day with a knapsack full of half-nibbled biscuits and more questions than her mother had answers. It had started with a music lesson- she took piano from Mrs. Morris, twice weekly and once on Sundays after church. Old lady Morris was given to flights
I told Gage not to take it. For weeks now stories had been coming in about these goddamn âchill pillsâ. That you could go to this awesome psychedelic place, you know, a real âtripâ. And normally, yeah, thatâd be my jam. That night we were at our usual place, a
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I never really liked my sister. I mean, of course, I love her, but weâve never quite gotten along. Itâs more than just that âsister rivalryâ thing. Even as I stand here now on her front lawn, I guess Iâm where Iâve always been with Madeline- torn, caught between two
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Tiger canât change his stripes, tiger canât change his stripes. That was the motto Jo chanted in her head as she slowly rode over to 7 Brook Street. She found herself circling the block a couple times even after she had located the place, too nervous to act. It was
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My dog wonât stop staring at me. Sounds like a trivial problem, I know- just ignore her, or block her view, or shift location. But after weeks and weeks on end, Iâve finally had enough of it. And having that creeping sensation come over your skin, that feeling that youâre
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There once was a girl sitting on her sofa, reading a book by the tableside lamp like any young girl might do. Above her hung an bloodstained old woman on the ceiling, with grotesquely rotating limbs as she slobbered and gasped like a dying fish. But the girl paid her
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I am eternal. In a universal sense, I always have been and always will be here, though I did not always walk amongst you humans, nor even have need to walk at all. At first I simply was here to do the bidding of a harsh God, and He named
Riggs put his hand up to shield his eyes from the midday sun, unused to any natural light source, as he gingerly stepped out of the crumbled wall of the facility. Dr. Geary, his research companion, took his hand and together they slowly walked back a few paces to assess
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The cracked, grey structure stood like a monument before them, separated from the offroad only by a chainlink fence, scattering pockets of moonlight over the foursome. Swaying against each other with inebriation, three fraternity boys and the only girl they could find who had the balls to come up to
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