Will Warren
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long thaw
Long Thaw Once a year, on the eve of Grace’s birthday, the anniversary of the day she’d fallen off the face of the earth six years ago, you and your friends awaken to find a cardboard box in each of your mailboxes, containing a sheaf of construction-paper posters and a printed map of the city with your routes highlighted in purple. Her frozen face smiles up at you from inside the package, with the yearly chorus of “DO YOU KNOW WHERE I AM?” in big block letters above a detailed description of what she looked like the last time she’d been seen alive, from the same three sets of clothes she’d always wear to the ever-present orange tilley hat she’d don in rain or shine or hail or snow.
By Will Warren4 years ago in Horror
The Wreck of the Little Black Book
Eighty-six years and three months to the day after a tropical storm off the coast of Little Cayman sunk prohibition kingpin Alec O'Finnigan's private pleasure yacht the Little Black Book- taking its now-legendary cache of $20,000 in cold hard gold bullion with it- when the ocean’s ever-shifting underbelly finally brought the ship back to the mainland in three splintered pieces. Each resurfacing Piece in turn incurred several sequences of curious incidents, all of which culminated in the untimely demise of seven people on the shores of Aldous Cove, and also seem eerily too interconnected to be coincidence. I am not here to dispute the treasure's profound lack of existence by now, nor will I advise all you treasure hunters out there to keep looking, but if they gather nothing else from this account, the reader should at least understand why my involvement in these events shaped my own conviction that coincidences don’t exist.
By Will Warren5 years ago in Criminal
