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    They Must Play: Haunted Coal Ridge, #3
    They Must Play: Haunted Coal Ridge, #3
    They Must Play: Haunted Coal Ridge, #3
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    They Must Play: Haunted Coal Ridge, #3

    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 3: "They Must Play"

    Some people are so strange. It isn't enough that her neighbor has a group of small decorative pig statues in her front yard but putting up a playset and staging them around it is a little much.

    With all she had going wrong in her life, it was easy for Julie to forget the old adage about judging others before walking in their shoes. She gets a painful reminder when she discovers that those pigs weren't just staged that way. They need to be kept busy or they'll make their own brand of bloody fun.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Distracted
    Release dateAug 13, 2018
    ISBN9781646390106
    They Must Play: Haunted Coal Ridge, #3
    Author

    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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      They Must Play - 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.

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      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.

      They Must Play

      April 27th, 2017

      Julie sat at her kitchen table, staring into the dulled walnut finish. When they’d first purchased it, the table gloriously reflected the light of the chandelier above and the sliding glass doors behind, but the years had been as unkind to it as they had to her athletic figure. Both could be blamed unfairly on the kids, but only because they made for convenient targets.

      No, one word summed up the real reason.

      Complacency.

      Who would think something that felt so comfortable could be so bad for you?

      That word had been on her mind a lot recently. At work, her manager claimed that complacency caused mistakes. It had been a favorite buzzword around the office for six months until processes became the next big obsession. With that predictably random change of focus, all talk of complacency suddenly disappeared from her workday but somehow managed to wiggle into her brain.

      Did she and Steve become complacent in their marriage? She had difficulty believing that the security and comfort of home could disguise the problems that led to their divorce. But evidence of hidden misgivings growing in the quiet contentment of their lives seemed to suggest that it had.

      It happened with the table.

      The first time Bobby raked it

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