Creepy America, Episode 15: Mirror, Mirror

By Noah Hoffmann

A series of horror short-stories, "Creepy America" recounts the webshow of the same name. Filmed, edited, and published by friends Zoey and Liam, the two traveled from state to state trying to find the truth behind the strange happenings, local hauntings, and urban legends all across the continental United States. Told years later from the perspective of Liam, these tales describe the events that transpired on the show, from the evolving friendship of the two co-hosts to the vast conspiracy uncovered piece by piece as more and more secrets are revealed.

After breaking an antique mirror and creating a set of duplicates of themselves, Liam and Zoey must deal with the fallout of their actions and figure out where a second set of themselves fit into the picture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: Sep 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005381677

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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Creepy America: Episode 15

Mirror, Mirror

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords.

Copywrite 2020 by Noah Hoffmann

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

The Adventures of Solaire

 fantasy adventure filled with magic, steampunk, and pirates.

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Episode 15

Creepy America

Episode 15

Mirror, Mirror

St. Francisville, Lousianna

I think about the doppelgangers a lot.

I suppose that’s not entirely true; I think about how things could be different, how my life would look if I had taken other paths, instead of the ones I did. What would have happened if I never picked up that ‘Worlds of Wonder’ painting, gone back to college and finished my degree? What if I had said ‘yes’ to that initial road trip, but Creepy America had never happened? Is there some possible combination of events where Creepy America is still going to this day?

Where Zoey and I are still together?

And naturally, those thoughts drift back to the doppelgangers. And naturally, they drift back to the same frustrating truths. Their existence seems to suggest that yes, there are some timelines where things went differently, where things worked out for the best, or at least, better than they worked out here. And there are some where things went worse. In the end, my placement here, now, in a shitty studio apartment, barely getting by, has less to do with any amount of choice or free will on my part, and instead on just a roll of the dice, placing me in this universe where things were destined to be this way, like some great cosmic joke: ‘go directly to jail, do not pass go, better luck next time Liam, ha ha.’

Or perhaps not. After all, some things I’ve learned seem to disagree with that theory, and some reinforce it. In the end, I have no more illumination into things than when I first started, and in a way, I’ve learned nothing since those early days before Creepy America. More data, less conclusions: the universe continues to shroud its secrets to me.

But then again, perhaps