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No Footprints In The Snow
Hawthorn steps into a snowy night and follows a girl who leaves no footprints — a nineteenth-century tale of murder and the uncanny.
Nathan Poole Shannon · Brownsville · 15 min read
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Fishing
A solitary morning on the Susquehanna begins like countless fishing trips before it. But as the heat rises and the river grows strangely familiar, Scott discovers that something in the water may know him better than he knows himself.
William Cook · Susquehanna River · 6 min read
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Fishing
A solitary morning on the Susquehanna begins like countless fishing trips before it. But as the heat rises and the river grows strangely familiar, Scott discovers that something in the water may know him better than he knows himself.
William Cook · Susquehanna River · 6 min read
Fiction
No Footprints In The Snow
Hawthorn steps into a snowy night and follows a girl who leaves no footprints — a nineteenth-century tale of murder and the uncanny.
Nathan Poole Shannon · Brownsville · 15 min read
Fiction
The Tell-Tale Heart
A classic tale of guilt and madness — Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 masterpiece of psychological horror.
Edgar Allan Poe · 11 min read
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