Slips

By Scott Welsh

Todd Mydland arrives in Thicket, Virginia to investigate rumors of paranormal activity surrounding a house where an old shut-in lives. His job is to figure out whether the rumors are ungrounded, or whether there's a Slip--a place where the fabric of reality starts to wear thin.

At approximately 6,000 words, Slips is perfect for a quick dose of abnormality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scott Welsh
• Release date: Jul 20, 2011

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SLIPS

Scott Welsh

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or real persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 Scott Welsh

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Nothing seemed abnormal. Then again, nothing ever did at first. Abnormality had a way of seeping into the cracks of the world and hiding there—omnipresent but shy, somehow. It became part of everything people saw and everything people knew and because of that people chose to ignore it. Even when it was staring them straight in the face, they ignored it.

But sometimes it became overwhelming. Sometimes something would happen to remind people just how weird things were. That was when people called Todd’s company to assess the situation.

And to Todd, the house looked fine.

According to the locals it was haunted, but the haunting was a strange one—the ghost was a living woman. A shut-in. That’s it. She’d lived there for a long time and she never spoke to anyone anymore, so they assumed she was a ghost.

Todd never got to see the reports that eventually led to his visits, so he didn’t know the specifics of what people were saying about the woman until he conducted interviews. The organization he worked for was backed by the government, which was a blessing and a pain in the ass at the same time. On the plus side, the organization wouldn’t have been able to function at all if not for the financial backing from the government.

The pitfall—the main pitfall, at any rate—was that any information obtained by the organization could only move upwards in the company until it