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    Lucky Day
    Lucky Day
    Lucky Day
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    Lucky Day

    By Stefon Mears

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    Pain.

    Pain revived Carl. Roused him out of the blackness…

    Carl: a college student, hitchhiking home for break. Along the Oregon coast. Now he wakes up in darkness. Suspended by his wrists.

    Carl faces the toughest night of his life. Possibly the last.

    “Lucky Day” – an intense, relentless thriller of a short story that takes place on one harrowing night. If you like rough action or serial killer stories, don’t miss this one! From Stefon Mears, author of The House on Cedar Street and The Right Kind of Stake.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateJan 17, 2018
    ISBN9781386507642
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      Lucky Day

      Stefon Mears

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      Pain.

      Pain revived Carl. Roused him out of the blackness.

      Tight fire around his wrists. Strain past the point of exhaustion in his shoulders. Pin-and-needle numbness through his fingers and hands, bound together up high.

      That spot on the back of his head that threatened to split his skull. Dump his brains all over his chest.

      Nothing at all underneath his feet. Above him just the creak of rope under tension.

      Nothing to see either. Pitch black everywhere he could make his eyes look. Craning his head made him spin a little, roiling nausea through his empty stomach.

      He could smell stale vomit. Taste it too. Must have thrown up once already. The odor was old enough that he could pick up more underneath it.

      Sweat. Urine. Blood.

      Lilacs?

      Karen smelled like lilacs.

      Rainy night along the Oregon Coast. Wide open field off to the right, and signs Carl didn't have to read. Signs that explained logging and tree rotation and

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