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    Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles
    Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles
    Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles
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    Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles

    By Michael Crane

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    Welcome to Red Heights. A town with a killer reputation... Seriously.

    Monsters. Homicidal maniacs. A killer sock monkey that never stops laughing. A whole gang of nightmares await your arrival with bloody, open arms.

    With LESSONS V: THE TERRIBLE TOWN AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES, you’ll find forty short tales, each only a hundred words long. Some will make you giggle. Others might make you want to sleep with the lights on.

    Either way, your stay at Red Heights will be a memorable one. There’s a gravestone with your name on it.

    Includes a bonus drabble from author David McAfee, never before published.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Crane
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781370768936
    Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles
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    Michael Crane

    Michael Crane is an indie author and short story writer. Switching between slice-of-life fiction and horror stories, he is the author of In Decline (stories), Giggles (a novella), and a number of drabble collections (Lessons and Other Morbid Drabbles, Lessons II: Another Morbid Drabble Collection, Lessons III: Demonic Dolls and Other Morbid Drabbles, Lessons IV: The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles, Lessons V: The Terrible Town and Other Morbid Drabbles). He currently lives in Illinois with his wife.

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      Lessons V - Michael Crane

      This place is evil, he says. The town makes even decent people do the most horrible things.

      I can’t help but laugh at this while I drink my whiskey in Harold’s living room. Do tell, I say to him.

      I’m serious, he says, downing his whiskey. A mother killed her little boy. Used his insides as filling for a pie.

      I roll my eyes. Bullshit.

      Everybody has a story in Red Heights, he whispers. None of them good.

      What’s yours?

      Harold grins. I’m working on it.

      I never see the knife, but I feel the blade go into my stomach.

      FEEDING TOMMY

      Growling came from the basement, and it shook the house. Mary shivered in her chair as she glared at her husband.

      You should’ve brought one back, she hissed.

      I tried. Too many people.

      We have to feed Tommy, Mary said. A tear dropped from her eye. She shook her head. "You’ll have to do it. You were supposed to bring somebody back. It was your

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