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    The Black Hands
    The Black Hands
    The Black Hands
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    The Black Hands

    By Ren Williams

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    Alex's hands are slowly turning black and a deadly family secret is revealed.
    CW for animal deaths.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRen Williams
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301986040
    The Black Hands
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    Ren Williams

    Ren is a weird and important poet and geek from the edge of nowhere Wales. They also write weird little stories, bits and bobs and creative non-fiction.Ren is a pronoun indifferent bisexual non-binary/genderfluid writer.They blog about parenting, lgbtq issues and cats at Queer Little Family.Published in several LGBTQ lit publications, and with three self-published poetry collections.Ren will, one day, finish a novel.More commonly known as bread, they can be found sleeping or thinking about sleeping.They also dabble in art and photography.

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      Book preview

      The Black Hands - Ren Williams

      The Black Hands

      a short story

      by Ren Williams

      Published by R. Williams

      Smashwords Edition 2019

      Copyright 2019 R Williams

      Cover Photo by  Ian Espinosa  on Unsplash

      For more information visit rwilliamswriter.co.uk

      License Notes

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      The Black Hands

      Alex woke up with pins and needles in his hands one morning. Assuming he’d slept on them, he tried to shake it off, but the sensation didn’t lessen. When he left for his lectures, his fingers still tingled and a slight throb had started in his palm.

      The throbbing stopped. The tingling continued.

      His fingers started to go grey dark circles forming on each fingertip. He wasn't sure what to make of it, and three days later, when the grey colour had reached the first joints of his fingers, he made his way to the Student Health Centre and waited for a doctor.

      Then his fingers moved on their own.

      In the waiting room, Alex played with his phone, texting his friends, playing solitaire. He was making a move, placing a six, when his index finger moved an inch to the right, turning another three cards instead. He almost dropped the phone. He had lost all feeling in the finger for a second, just a second, and it had moved. He wasn't even sure

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