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18 Jul 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
By the time Jeremy has returned to Otherwise, the big news around camp is that Chef Jen has disappeared. Rebecca says she heard Jen get up from bed somewhere around 3am, but then she immediately fell back asleep, and didn’t think anything w...
7 Jul 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
While doubling up on the paychecks was great, Jeremy is relieved that it’s finally over, and he can remain at this retreat full-time. Though he and the others failed to locate any trace of that tall, possibly glowing man, they remained up well...
27 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Kay happens to be hanging out in the library, taking a break with a cup of tea, when her parents arrive for the tour. They made no appointment, at least none that she’s aware of, but they have brought Noah, whom Kay is genuinely overjoyed t...
19 Jun 2024 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Saturday morning finds many of them walking on eggshells. With the first tour slated to kick off at noon, and three total scheduled for the day, 78 people have already registered online, with untold walk-ups likely to appear as well. Even t...
19 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
They flip open the hatch and descend the stairs, The steps are an untreated, roughly hewn wood, though appearing surprisingly solid and unblemished considered they must have sat here for years in the dark, unused. At the bottom lies a solid concrete...
6 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though they are unable to reach Kidwell Monday, he is on premises Tuesday for what feels like, many of them agree, the most productive day since they’ve arrived at Otherwise. In some sort of zone ever since they returned from Stokely, in fa...
6 Jun 2024 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Within fifteen minutes, they are rolling down the long, diagonal hill into Stokely, gently curving at the bottom where it runs into the state route. Just past the intersection, in the row of buildings on the left, Fairlawn Diner sits at the end, H.L...
5 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I don’t know…it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” Clay’s telling whomever he’s speaking to on the phone, feet propped on a knotted pine coffee table in the main house’s library, “the closest town? I forget, it’s like…Spinning Rock or some shit. Aren...
25 May 2024 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“So you’re in with the ones starting that school back up, eh?” the old man says to them, then nods before they’ve even responded, “okay, we heard they was doin’ somethin with that property, but we didn’t know what.” After cresting one final steep hi...
19 May 2024 2 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Okay, so what kind of tree is that?” Clay challenges, pointing to a gnarled specimen sticking up just a few feet from the creek’s middle. “Those are what’s known as bald cypress trees,” Tom explains, without breaking stride in his furious...
