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    Mara
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    Mara

    By Bruce Allsman

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    Mara, a supernatural horror story by Bruce Allsman

     

    After a near futile search for yet another replacement maid to care for their four-year-old daughter, Mara, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Chee Kooi, find Diwata, who seems to satisfy Mara compared to the previous maids who had either quit within a week or ran away. Despite her relief, Mrs. Ho, curious about the relationship between Mara and Diwata, soon uncovers an unspeakable horror, a shocking truth, not about Diwata but her daughter.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Yeoh
    Release dateMay 3, 2021
    ISBN9798201434816
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      Mara - Bruce Allsman

      Mara

      Bruce Allsman

      All of the characters in this book

      are fictitious, and any resemblance

      to actual persons, living or dead,

      is purely coincidental.

      Mara

      Copyright © 2020, 2021 by Bruce Allsman

      All Rights Reserved

      Published by Bruce Yeoh

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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      Mara

      About the Author

      Books by Bruce Allsman

      Mara

      AT SEVEN O'CLOCK ON a gloomy morning in April 2018 at a three-story semi-detached house in Tanjong Tokong, Penang, a young mother, a Mrs. Ho Chee Kooi, five feet two inches tall, plumb with shoulder-length straight black hair and fair skin, had just bathed her four-year-old daughter, Mara, a chubby fair-skinned child with small eyes and hair like her mother.

      While dressing Mara in a knee-length white dress dotted with small single daffodils, Mrs. Ho said, Mara, we are going to have a new maid today.

      Mara scowled and shook her head from side to side.

      Mrs. Ho sighed. Why Mara so disobedient? She frowned. Was she being too fierce

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