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The Answer Man- Harvard law grad meets the Answer Man who can answer questions about the future. He meets the man multiple times & accurately predicts the death of the law grad, his wife & their son over the decades. Themes grief, basically that all the answers in the world cannot protect you from it. This story had me deep in thought for a while after finishing.

The Dreamers- woah that is not where I thought that was going. Sleep experiment where the scientist was trying to control the subjects minds & ends up dead so the scientist’s assistant burns down the house.

Rattlesnakes cont- the shadows showing up in a photo & pram squeak on voice memo is terrifying. Sorry what? The twins are TALKING to him now? He just dumped the pram containing the adult twin ghosts into the ocean? Aww he donated most of the inheritance to a food bank😭. This was a very unsettling story.

Rattlesnakes- grieving widower travels to Florida, meets his friend’s neighbour who pushes a pram around pretending her dead twins are in it & later discovers her dead body. The pram keeps following him around, he thinks he’s going insane & keeps dreaming about the pram & dead twins. Police say lady left her estate to him, insinuates that he coerced her then killed her?? Wild.

Laurie- well, this was a random one too. Started off really sweet but ended randomly. Older man grieving his wife is given a puppy from his sister, we got to see them bond & he decides to keep her. Then his neighbour is attacked by an alligator & the dog barks at it, then the man attacks the alligator? Seriously had no idea that was coming.

Red Screen- another alien story. This one wasn’t as intriguing as the last but maybe that’s because a man killed his wife because he thought she was an alien & then somehow convinced the detective working his case that his own wife was an alien lol.

On Slide Inn Road- not sure where to start here. Most of these stories have me lost for words which I guess is a good thing. Anyway, family driving to visit dying family member, their car gets stuck while driving, little kid sees bad men & a dead body, they start stealing from the family until Granpop beats them with a baseball bat then the family goes on their way. Sounds silly when i describe it.

Finn- this story gave me whiplash. A very unlucky kid gets kidnapped & tortured bc he’s assumed to be someone he isn’t but then all of the captors minus the leader & his sidekick decide to abandon the torture mission? So the kid is released & he goes to a park & climbs up a slide?

DCBD C60-68: a SECOND dream?! Jalbert thinking Danny knew & worked with the killer is crazy. I kind of don’t have words for this ending. That was a sad way to finish it off, even if the storyline was pointing to it almost the whole time.

DCBD C38-59: Danny is very trusting taking the drugs to Ella when she thinks him guilty for murder. Jalbert is unraveling. I love Stevie & DJ. Ella is brave confronting Jalbert alone, that was scary. Love Jesse too, what a nice kid. Danny gets shot. I’m not sure if I believe this whole ‘the real murdered came forward & confessed’ thing, very unrealistic & sloppy ending if so.