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But then he found an escape through the stories, a secret hole hole in the universe; reading had become as natural as breathing during this time overseas, and those first couple years he’d burned through a veritable library of books, most of them sort of bizarre stories he’d come to love: author, Richard matheson, Shirley Jackson and Kurt Vonnegut.“
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Theme:coin collection
-started my grandfather
— Vietnam coins brought back from war
— hobby
Pass down to father -only thing value To Travis at eight
Father and son, both a added coins of own
Collection hidden in attic in old Nike shoebox labeled, old dirty trash as kid
—forgotten aboutTravis remember collection because of dream as adult-on first night home
-reminds him of-long forgotten

POV-3rd person
Protag:adult male from USa.Named Travis

Where: return home after Mother death

Travis‘s father died when he was a kid eight years old
-Sent to prison
-Stabbed to death
-Coin collection only thing a value his father left him started by grandfather

“….getting lost in the world a lot like his own but we’re black is a bit more black and white a bit more white and wear the end everything added up and it made sense. Wouldn’t be nice, he thought it the real world was neat and tidy as the stories we created for ourselves?“
-about reading - paperback book

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Genre:
Horror

Influenced by:
Shirley Jackson
Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Matheson

PoV:3rd person

Protag/ Travis

oof..the unease of it all!