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Bleeding Over
by A.F. Stewart

The walls are thin sometimes. Between life and death, between dimensions, between places best left undisturbed and perceived reality. Within most moments of time they remain separate, but intermittently existence shifts, bleeding the edges into each other.

Letting things slip out.

Things lurking in the abandoned places, ephemeral shadows haunting the fringes of the world, sliding whispers, occasional glimpses past the boundaries. Parallel reverberations perceived as ghosts, déjà vu, and tricks of the light.

Most are temporary, fading as the realities reset, but some are dangerous.
Some are hungry.

We are always there, lingering, dormant, scratching at the edges of your world. Disguised as loved ones, or the cemetery shadow that makes you shiver. We are the legends, the cryptids, the bogeymen hiding in the dark. We are everywhere and nowhere, an ever-present menace, awaiting our chance to feed.

Your world is our playground…

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Fiction © Copyright A.F. Stewart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from A.F. Stewart:

Visions and Nightmares

Tragedy spares no one… and takes no prisoners.
In the twilight shadows, secrets are revealed past the whispers of madness.

Wander into the realm of the old gods with Elenora, where humanity and marriage are a prison.
Step through a looking glass of dark horrors with an Alice you never knew.
Join with Zenna to seek the truth as her death by magic grows closer.
Journey with Olivia as she crosses paths with a monster of the forest and runs for her life.
Watch Isobel summon the faerie to solve her problem of an unwanted husband.
Shiver as Doctor Killbride experiments with corpses to create life from death.
All that and more await within the pages.

Ten stories. Ten women.
Who will survive? Who will fall? And who will succumb to their inner evil?
Find out in Visions and Nightmares.

Warning: This book contains disturbing scenes that may be upsetting to some readers.

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