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Flavian West
by
S. Jonathan Baker
Copyright © 2010 by
S. Jonathan Baker
A regiment of Yankee troops conquering with Sherman across Georgia look for a place to set up a temporary headquarters. To their amazement, there is a lovely country manorhouse apparently untouched by the war. The name over the entryway say "Flavian West".
They enter the house to find it is completely abandoned. Strange, because when they saw it from the road, there seemed to be some sort of garden party going on.
The inhabitants have disappeared - a trifle too quickly - and the servants as well. The Major sends men out to scour the woods and fields to find them.
A few slaves are found hiding in the wood and they appear more frightened to go back into the house than fear of any weapons the Yankees are brandishing.
What could be the source of their fear, betraying their masters?
Or has it something to do with the house?
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Willysville
by
Gerald Reich
Copyright © 2010 by
Gerald Reich
Davey Everton was eight years old in 1953 when the horror came to Willysville.
His rock during the crisis was surprisingly found in the person of Hattie McCagle, an aged African-American grandmother, hired to babysit Davey, his brother, and a few other children during the summer months of that year. She drove away the demons that plagued them and kept the children in her care safe from all threats, real and imagined.
Years later, a similar crisis occurs in the town of Davey's grandchildren. He dismisses it from his mind, until he happens to catch a glimpse of a familiar face in the news report: his old babysitter, Hattie McCagle.
But if she was close to seventy then, how could she still be alive today?
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