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    Reflections: Haunted Coal Ridge, #2
    Reflections: Haunted Coal Ridge, #2
    Reflections: Haunted Coal Ridge, #2
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    Reflections: Haunted Coal Ridge, #2

    By Chuck Sperati

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    A series of intertwined supernatural stories that will make you wonder where the darkness ends and the light begins. All small towns keep secrets, but in Coal Ridge when the secret gets out, it begins to feed…again.

    Story 2: "Reflections"

    Being forced to endure a part-time job in Wooddale Park for something that was barely her fault, Sandy is trapped between her mother's lectures and the responsibilities of watching over the kids on the playground. As her friends go on with their social lives, she leads a group of children to see the froggies at Miller's Pond and ends up in a horror filled, waking nightmare. Something in the pond hungers for the kids and it's up to the teenager to keep them safe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Distracted
    Release dateAug 12, 2018
    ISBN9781646390045
    Reflections: Haunted Coal Ridge, #2
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    Chuck Sperati

    Among other things, I'm a writer--with some published experience--whose been mostly quiet for the past few decades, mostly because I let life get in the way. I've long had a creative outlet at the gaming table and recently found another when I started building a website. With this new outlet also came inspiration. Right now I'm working primarily on a series of short stories that has received some very positive feedback, so I'm sharing. If you enjoy anything I've written, check out my website at https://www.chucksperati.com, where you can find more things that have crawled out of my imagination.

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      Reflections - Chuck Sperati

      Dedication

      Coal Ridge is based on Ohio’s Finest Village. It was a great place to grow up and continues to be a remarkable community to which I enjoy returning to see friends and family. For those who live there, take a moment, look around, and be wary of the shadows.

      Preface

      A series of intertwined short stories that will make you wonder where the darkness ends and the light begins. All small towns keep secrets, but in Coal Ridge, when the secret gets out, it begins to feed...again.

      Set in a small, somewhat geographically secluded Midwestern town, the blue-collar people of Coal Ridge are friendly and laid back. They enjoy block parties, gossip, and the simple joys that come with being a close-knit community. Since everyone knows everyone else, secrets are hard to keep, but some are so well hidden that they’ve been forgotten.

      These short stories explore a supernatural awakening that will test the bonds of family and community.

      Reflections

      October 13th, 2017

      A cool wind blew across the playground at Wooddale Park, stirring up dry leaves and blowing Sandy’s hair into her face. Sighing, the teenage girl pulled a handful of blonde locks and put them behind her left ear while she listened to her mother’s nagging voice in her right.

      She desperately wished for a hair tie.

      ...time to learn responsibility, her mom stated yet again, repeating the same lecture heard daily over the past two weeks. Not that it mattered—the teenager had stopped listening when her parents forced her to get a job. None of her friends had to work while going to school, yet they insisted she spend her little free time working.

      And why?

      Because she tapped a fire hydrant.

      Tapped it!

      I barely even scratched the bumper. If the stupid fire hydrant hadn’t been designed to break away, no one would have even known she’d hit it. But since it did, her parents forced her to pay the stupid town of Coal Ridge seven

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