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    What Lies Beneath
    What Lies Beneath
    What Lies Beneath
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    What Lies Beneath

    By K Anderson

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    WHAT LIES BENEATH is a fantasy and magical realism short story collection from K. Anderson. It explores human nature, connection, and emotion through mythology, the supernatural, and modern-day settings.
    WHAT LIES BENEATH features "Skins," "Collect Call," and two versions of "Slate Gray."
    "Skins", the first story in this collection, is a spin on the Scandinavian tale of "The Lindworm," where the daughter of a gardner is married to the monstrous Lindworm Prince in an effort to appease him after he has already eaten his first two brides.

    "Collect Call" is a grisly story focusing on tension in stasis and a woman's will to live. Mary must figure out a way to survive bothing her most recent job for the mob when she is collected by one of its members.
    "Slate Gray" focuses on the dynamic between morally gray Louis and Detective Princeton. They attempt the beginnings of a romance despite Princeton having been hunting Louis down for years for an art heist.

    "Slate Gray, Version Two," plays out the tension between Vampire Louis and Detective Princeton, who has the opportunity to finally kill Louis after the vampire is injured in a fight, but takes the chance to attempt at the first steps in a romance instead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK Anderson
    Release dateOct 24, 2021
    ISBN9780463050026
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      What Lies Beneath - K Anderson

      What Lies Beneath

      Flash Fiction Collection, 2021

      K. Anderson

      Copyright  K. Anderson, 2021

      All Rights Reserved

      First Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Table of Contents

      Skins

      Slate Gray

      Slate Gray, Version 2

      Collect Call

      About the Author

      Skins

      She waited for him in their wedding chamber, trembling, her eyes skipping from the tub of lye, to the tub of milk, to the switches. The witch’s words lingered in the back of her head: skin the beast.

      Two before her had come to this chamber and met their last breaths, with no corpse nor bones to return to their families. She wondered about them, now. Had they shaken

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