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The Tangible Dark: Part Three

27 Apr 202217 May 2022
Another two weeks passed by, and the dark remained as stifled and silent as before Godfrey's interruption. Then, quietly and without fanfare, a new stranger entered the mist. It was…
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The Tangible Dark: Part Two

20 Apr 202227 Apr 2022
Twas the noble knight Godfrey who first answered the call to investigate the hamlet. He hailed from a far distant castle, which received news of the spreading evil on a…
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The Tangible Dark: Part One

13 Apr 202220 Apr 2022
Never thought and never found, in the bower without a sound.A prism cracked and liege forsworn, with cuppered fringes fall'd to ruin. In the attic, pressed in by box and…
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The Late Letter: Part Three

6 Apr 202213 Apr 2022
"So why not go back to the slums?" Freida's best friend Adelaide asked her the next morning. "Find another man. Someone who doesn't think he has to go to the…
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The Late Letter: Part Two

30 Mar 20226 Apr 2022
Freida did not linger at the old apartment, though. The very next day she turned in her key and caught the first train back to her home in Bavaria. Her…
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The Late Letter: Part One

23 Mar 202230 Mar 2022
"Freida, have you seen my socks?" "Oh how perfect, Lukas! You cannot keep track even of your own socks and you think it is good to go and live by…
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Hunt of the Others: Part Five

16 Mar 202223 Mar 2022
"Get back!" Myers shouted. All the hunters stared in horror as the claws kept stretching further and further out of the silver window, becoming impossibly warped and long, just as…
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Hunt of the Others: Part Four

9 Mar 202216 Mar 2022
Perry flexed his hands nervously as the beast's snout writhed back and forth through the narrow slit of the window. Its face slammed sideways against his pinned fingers, but with…
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Hunt of the Others: Part Three

2 Mar 20229 Mar 2022
"Gonzalez we are NOT ready for co-option!" Perry said through gritted teeth, eyes rapidly flicking between the man and the pulsing ripples being blasting through each of the pistons. "You…

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