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Rain
by Rie Sheridan Rose

Rain.

Cold.

Wet.

Saturating the earth and the sensibilities.

Days, weeks, a month of rain.

Everyone scurried around with their heads down and their trousers hiked trying to soak up as little of the water as possible. They should have done their dead-level best to sponge it all off the roadways.

Instead, it slipped through the cracks, poured through the manhole covers, seeped into the fabric of the world…

…and touched something deep within the shadows.

Called its name.

Woke it up.

And now, it is coming to eat the world.

Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Author Rie Sheridan Rose:

Skellyman

“I have always preferred the supernatural in tales of horror, the knot between life and death. Rie Sheridan Rose’s Skellyman is cool and creepy. Her first horror novel is a chilling read.” — Charlee Jacob – Stoker winner, Best novel, “Dread in the Beast”

Brenda Barnett is trying to cope with raising her four-year-old daughter all alone after an accident tore her family in half. As she and Daisy go for a much-needed treat, the little girl spots a Skellyman on the corner.

This pivotal encounter leads to a wave of mounting terror as Brenda’s life begins to come undone around her. Who is the Skellyman? Why does he keep appearing? Can the sympathetic policeman Brenda turns to stop the madness before it is too late?

And why does Daisy insist that her dead brother is trying to tell them something important?

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