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    The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota
    The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota
    The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota
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    The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota

    By DeAnna Knippling

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    An Urban Fantasy / Women's Fantasy Fiction Short Story


    An urban explorer breaks into what was once the United States' "most haunted asylum" in order to test a theory that people will only sense ghosts under certain conditions.

    She's a skeptic. She's already convinced she knows the truth.

    But when she gets into the tunnels underneath the restored buildings of the asylum, she encounters someone--or something--she didn't expect.

    Part of the Uncollected Anthology series, Issue 21: Deities!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWonderland Press
    Release dateMar 9, 2020
    ISBN9781393249016
    The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota
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    DeAnna Knippling

    DeAnna Knippling is a freelance writer, editor, and book designer living in Colorado.  She started out as a farm girl in the middle of South Dakota, went to school in Vermillion, SD, then gravitated through Iowa to Colorado, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and mystery for adults under her own name; adventurous and weird fiction for middle-grade (8-12 year old) kids under the pseudonym De Kenyon; and various thriller and suspense fiction for her ghostwriting clients under various and non-disclosable names. Her latest book, Alice’s Adventures in Underland:  The Queen of Stilled Hearts, combines two of her favorite topics–zombies and Lewis Carroll. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Static, Penumbra, Crossed Genres, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and more. Her website and blog are at www.WonderlandPress.com.  You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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      The Winter Goddess of Anoka, Minnesota

      Anoka, Minnesota, is the self-proclaimed Halloween capital of the world. It lies just north of Minneapolis in the Twin Cities, deep within the suburbs.

      Downtown is made up of two- and three-story brick buildings and looks like a small-town setting out of Twilight Zone. In other words, it looks like the last place you’d expect creepy goings-on. Black-and-white photographs of downtown Anoka from the Fifties look nearly the same as modern ones. Replace the old-timey Studebakers with SUVs, and you’d hardly notice the difference.

      What makes this small town the Halloween capital of the world is that it held one of the first Halloween parades (in 1920), to help prevent mischief from the local children: soaping windows, tipping over outhouses, and releasing cows onto Main Street. These days, there are multiple Halloween

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