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    Two Lip Garden: A Short Psychological Horror Story
    Two Lip Garden: A Short Psychological Horror Story
    Two Lip Garden: A Short Psychological Horror Story
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    Two Lip Garden: A Short Psychological Horror Story

    By Erica Summers

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    Lana Wilson has always found solace in gardening, especially at night. But when a horrifying discovery is made beneath the soil's surface, the fabric of her entire world unravels.

     

    Some secrets should stay buried...

     

    From the author of Vanity Kills, Writhe, & Price Slashers comes a deeply disturbing psychological horror story about loss in all forms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRusty Ogre Publishing
    Release dateMar 19, 2024
    ISBN9798224545131
    Two Lip Garden: A Short Psychological Horror Story

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      Two Lip Garden - Erica Summers

      Two-Lip Garden

      A Psychological Horror Story

      Erica Summers

      IN THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYR

      Copyright © 2023 by Erica Summers

      All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this short story may be reproduced in any manner, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without express written permission by the author(s) and or publisher, except for the use of a brief quotation in a book review.

      www.EricaSummers.com

      West Haven, Connecticut, United States

      This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, organizations and incidents are either part of the author’s

      imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Cover Design by Erica Summers

      Contents

      More Titles by Erica Summers

      Two Lip Garden

      About the Author

      More from Rusty Ogre Publishing

      More from Rusty Ogre

      More Titles by Erica Summers

      Novellas:

      Writhe (with H.M. Wohl)

      Bad God’s Tower

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      Novels:

      Mantis

      Vanity Kills

      The Rictus Grin and Other Tales of Insanity

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      Anthologies:

      Price Slashers (Slashic Horror Press) (w/Chisto Healy and Mick R. Collins)

      Ensuring Your Place in Hell II (w/Otis Bateman and Stephen Cooper)

      Two Lip Garden

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      An amber leaf abandoned the bough, danced joyfully down through the crisp night air, flitted like a moon-bathed butterfly through the darkness, and rested atop Lana Wilson’s graying curls. Sheltered from the rest of the world behind a tall

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