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    Elizabeth: Haunted Coal Ridge, #11
    Elizabeth: Haunted Coal Ridge, #11
    Elizabeth: Haunted Coal Ridge, #11
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    Elizabeth: Haunted Coal Ridge, #11

    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 11: "Elizabeth"

    In December 1968 Mary Shelley Elementary in Coal Ridge lost a teacher and gained a guardian angel.

    A widowed school teacher, Elizabeth Felger led a simple life with good friends and year after year of students she adored. When she saw one of them in danger on her way home from a card game, Elizabeth rushed in without hesitation and came face to face with a secret that has been preying on the people of Coal Ridge.

    They say that no good deed goes unpunished. She may have saved the boy, but Elizabeth didn't come away a survivor, she came away as something much more...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Distracted
    Release dateDec 16, 2018
    ISBN9781646390267
    Elizabeth: Haunted Coal Ridge, #11
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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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      Elizabeth - 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 town in the Midwest, the blue-collar people of Coal Ridge are friendly and laid back, enjoying block parties, gossip, and the simple joys that come with being a close-knit community. Because 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.

      Elizabeth

      An average townhall meeting in Coal Ridge was held in the high school library and included around twenty residents in addition to the Mayor and members of the City Council. Rarely more than an hour long, most of the questions revolved around budgetary items and common concerns included shed robberies, occasional wild animal sightings, and parking issues. By these standards, the December meeting was nothing short of an event. Nothing like it had happened since the panic filled, standing room only meetings of the late 1960s, where the concerns being voiced were absurd and unbelievable.

      While big, fluffy snowflakes fell outside and piled up around town, almost two thousand residents of Coal Ridge packed into and around the basketball stands in the gym.

      Alright everyone, Mayor Tanya Fisher said into the microphone, while standing on the Red Rider symbol at the center of the basketball court. "I'm not going to waste everyone's time by starting with the minutes of the last meeting or discussing the current agenda. We're all here to talk about the disappearances and strange

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