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NEW LESS TAKEN EPISODE -  04.05.22
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LESS TAKEN: CROSSROADS
EPISODE 3: WILLOWS WEEP

In this episode, we explore the story of Willows Weep, a house William Shatner once described as being the most haunted residence in America. 

It has a long history of deaths and an even longer legacy of legends and myths. But how many of the stories are true? And who stands to gain from them, if anyone at all? 

Find out all of this and more in Episode 3: Willows Weep. Available wherever you get your podcasts. 
For now, check out the sample below. 

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Winter '22 Featured Story #3

"Lovely Weather for Long Brooke"

Originally Published by Full of Crow Quarterly
In this story, a man wakes up one day to find out his entire existence has been replaced. 
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Short Story Collection

No-Injury Policy


The citizens of Chase County will do anything to make sure they survive. No-Injury Policy explores the dark depths of human nature when social pressures peak.
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I sat down with my Kindle and lost myself in a world of deep despair, twisted humanity, and basically hell-on-earth. I became totally immersed in these tales and continued to turn the page, waiting to see what kind horror was contained in the next story.

PJ Carroll

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Free No-Injury Policy Story

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Trying to decide if No-Injury Policy is the short story collection for you? Here's a free full-length story to help you out. It's a tale about two brothers trying to cope with the loss of their mother and avoid their darker impulses. ​
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Nauseating strobes flash through the packed night club and break everyone down into static. My head spins as I try to focus on a blurred blond woman across from me on a curved leather bench. I watch her tap her neon-painted fingernails along the table.

With one hand running along the side of my head, she makes me recoil even before she flashes her cracked grin. This ghost of a woman digs her nails into her face and peels down her flesh. Rather than cartilage or tissue, underneath her skin is a deep blackness with only her eyes and bone structure to reveal.

Some sudden change in motion, I’m to my feet and stumbling backwards across the sticky floor, which is resonant of a good time gone wrong. She stays in her seat, sipping on an Amaretto Sour. She sets her drink on the table and lets the liquid run along her jawbone and out of her throat. Rummaging through her handbag, the blond woman pulls out a pocket mirror and turns it at me.

Her sharp nails clench my wrist and pull me closer, until I can see my flection in the mirror. From my forehead to the bridge of my nose , my flesh melts away, developing into a dark abyss much like hers. 
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I sat down with my Kindle and lost myself in a world of deep despair, twisted humanity, and basically hell-on-earth. I became totally immersed in these tales and continued to turn the page, waiting to see what kind horror was contained in the next story.

PJ Carroll

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Lytherus

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