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The Fourth Darkness: & Other Short Stories
An eclectic collection of not really short tales, told in the realm of a darker world full of improbable impossibilities, where within you’ll
Rose McIverson, a young woman who truly believes she can swim all the way across the lake, thanks to what she believes to be a correct reading of the signs, regardless of how cold the water comes in Rose and Reuel.
In Dexter, a tale contributed by P.F. Kendall, a young man of somewhat nefarious means, returns to his boyhood town not to revisit old friends, because most of them are already dead, but to make sure one of them still is.
Calvin Jenkins catches a plane, in a short story penned by P.t. Pelkin, because he believes whatever powers there be have directed him to do so, in order to make sure the world, as he knows it, remains Balanced.
There's more. A young girl is given a class assignment Due On Monday to interview one of her neighbors. A young woman finds herself traveling via train into The Second Darkness. Another answer the phone, by mistake, in Your Stalker. And in the collections namesake, Haley, Halls to those few who know of her, awakens in The Fourth Darkness, the namesake novella of this collection. A modest compilation of softly-told tales which are, as are all the works of these authors, intended for the mature reader.
Rose McIverson, a young woman who truly believes she can swim all the way across the lake, thanks to what she believes to be a correct reading of the signs, regardless of how cold the water comes in Rose and Reuel.
In Dexter, a tale contributed by P.F. Kendall, a young man of somewhat nefarious means, returns to his boyhood town not to revisit old friends, because most of them are already dead, but to make sure one of them still is.
Calvin Jenkins catches a plane, in a short story penned by P.t. Pelkin, because he believes whatever powers there be have directed him to do so, in order to make sure the world, as he knows it, remains Balanced.
There's more. A young girl is given a class assignment Due On Monday to interview one of her neighbors. A young woman finds herself traveling via train into The Second Darkness. Another answer the phone, by mistake, in Your Stalker. And in the collections namesake, Haley, Halls to those few who know of her, awakens in The Fourth Darkness, the namesake novella of this collection. A modest compilation of softly-told tales which are, as are all the works of these authors, intended for the mature reader.
408 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 21, 2024
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