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    The Followers
    The Followers
    The Followers
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    The Followers

    By Lucas Pederson

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    The basement stinks of dirt, oil, and blood.
    And something else...

    There are "dark spots" all over the world. Bad places that go unknown and unrecorded, until now...

    "In this short story prepare to delve into darkness, raw and uncut."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucas Pederson
    Release dateAug 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476094274
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      The Followers - Lucas Pederson

      The Followers

      Lucas Pederson

      Copyright 2012 by Lucas Pederson

      Smashwords Edition

      The basement stinks of dirt, oil, and blood.

      And something else.

      The stench of decay. Of rotting meat.

      Chicken liver smells like this when left to stew in a hot summer sun.

      It’s dark down there, but don’t be scared. Take my hand and let’s go a little deeper.

      Age weary, wooden steps sink in to the bowels of an obsidian soup.

      Our foot falls don’t make a sound.

      The stink and darkness aside, there’s something else about this basement that strums against our nerves, plucks at the sinews of our being, froths inside our minds. But, to know what it is, we must continue the descent.

      Faint,

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