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    The Event and Other Stories
    The Event and Other Stories
    The Event and Other Stories
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    The Event and Other Stories

    By Jon Sauve

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    Disco Lights - The opening of a mysterious door unleashes a nightmare from another dimension.

    The Stretch - A team of astronauts is sent to investigate something oddly familiar.

    The Awakener - A young man struggles with the responsibility of choosing who will inherit the Earth.

    Happy Birthday Land! - An expansive theme park in a post-apocalyptic mega city is overrun by cannibalistic clowns.

    The Event - A city is cut off from the rest of the world and offered a frightening view of the future.

    Portable Hyperspace - A man races to escape the convergence, an overlapping of universes that will destroy reality.

    All these stories, plus five dark poems, can be found in THE EVENT.

    You won't look like yourself when the light turns on...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Sauve
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781310110948
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