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7 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
By the time an apparently not-overly-concerned Clay arrives on the scene, it’s almost noon. At Emily’s insistence a number of them are loitering around the main house’s lobby, in front of Grace’s counter, which affords a tremendous view via i...
31 Dec 2024 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Denise had done her homework before reaching this decision, slowly accumulating what she needed over the past couple of weeks. Even so, when limited to what one might carry on one’s person, running out of supplies remained a legitimate c...
26 Dec 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy knows enough about Denise to recognize when she means business. Therefore he makes a point of rising early himself in the morning, before the hysteria kicks in concerning her absence. He has business to conduct in Stokely, and knows th...
16 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy’s seated at the round wooden table in his cabin, having just finished the task at hand. Underneath the bright floor lamp shining over his shoulder, he’s gone through every tree in the sketch book, comparing the names Drucker scribbled,...
13 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Clay, who has no real interest in these matters, begs off in favor of heading back to the cabin, streaming a hunting show on his phone. The others break away from him in the hallway, turning left into the school office. With Liam in the lead...
9 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“It’s funny, but I think I actually remember the last words I heard him say,” Emily recalls, as the six of them, with every overhead light and lamp on in the room, begin gently tossing it. “He was telling that mom and those kids at his last w...
5 Dec 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Emily doesn’t creep back into the cabin until shortly after sunrise. Jeremy tussles a little in the bed but doesn’t open his eyes, and she’s able to slip back in without his ever having noticed that she was away. Following such an experience in th...
3 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The latest Saturday tour draws just seven paying customers, three of them at the kids’ price. This latter development occurs late in the afternoon, even, as a woman with three kids she is babysitting arrives and tells Grace, “we had a terrible tim...
17 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Kathy is far too credible a source to question, but even if it were anybody else making this claim, hope alone would probably send half of them out to the pond behind the barn to investigate. She had been leaning into the sill of an open wi...
12 Nov 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
At no point had there ever been any news crew sent out to report on Ben and Lois’s mysterious fate, either at Otherwise or in their hometown or anywhere in between. Common sense seemed to indicate that there probably was a newspaper writeup or two...
