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    Fate
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    Ebook38 pages31 minutes

    Fate

    By Joe Cron

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    Since his wife’s death, novelist David Carvier can’t put two words together. Desperate to break the stranglehold of writer’s block, he retreats to his secluded cabin to wrestle with his frustrations, but there David tips on the edge of madness as he endures strange, terrifying episodes. When his new girlfriend arrives, the mysterious pieces unravel to reveal the horror behind the twisted haunting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLardin Press
    Release dateMar 29, 2014
    ISBN9781310921346
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      THE TREES OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN were breathtaking as David Carvier drove toward his cabin in the dunes near Fort Abernathy. It was the perfect time for fall colors—the second week of October. It was just before the seasonal peak, and that was David's favorite moment, because anything that was still green added to the yellows, oranges, and reds blazing in the dense maples of the midwestern forests. Another ten days and the fiery colors would be mixed with more brown. Gorgeous still, but not the palette he was seeing as he wound his way north along US-31 from his year-round home in Manistee. It was about a two-hour trip, one he made in the summer months fairly often, but this was his first autumn visit in a number of years, and it was just what he needed.

      David was in his thirties, a slender five-ten, with light brown hair and unremarkable features. Just a guy. He was smart and personable, but most aspects of his life were fairly inconsequential. He was, however, a quite successful novelist, with a popular series of adventure stories. Excelling in few other areas of his life, his writing was everything to him. He was lucky in that respect; he'd found that thing, the one worthy of pouring himself into, that he was good at and could rely on to support and sustain him. He knew some people searched a lifetime without finding that.

      The writing drove everything he did, and it was why he was on this trip. Roughly four months earlier, his wife passed away, and his creativity had suddenly dried up. He'd never had a problem coming up with stories before. Sure, there were short phases where he got stuck, but he always knew the inspiration would come around, and it always did. This time, it felt like a faucet shut off. Not even a trickle. He was way past explaining it by any reaction to his wife’s passing. It was like some creative lobe in his brain was removed.

      At first, it was just odd. After a month of odd, it became distressing. Another month and it was driving him crazy. That was two months ago, and he was well into desperation, staring into the eyes of whatever was past that.

      During those same months, he met his girlfriend, Sarah. In the wake of becoming a widower, and besieged by his creative struggles, it wasn't the best time of his life to be developing a relationship, but these things don't follow a schedule. They had fun, and she

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