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    Inside Voice: Haunted Coal Ridge, #10
    Inside Voice: Haunted Coal Ridge, #10
    Inside Voice: Haunted Coal Ridge, #10
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    Inside Voice: Haunted Coal Ridge, #10

    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 10: "Inside Voice"

    Caleb's not so popular in the real world, but he loves his video games. For him, nothing quite matches the thrill of hunting enemies in complex battle maps, while chatting with his online friends.

    Emily is trapped in a dark place and she's not alone. While looking for a way out, she hears Caleb, but she's not the only one that's found him.

    Now Caleb and Emily are prey in a real-life hunt on the most terrifying level of all—Coal Ridge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Distracted
    Release dateNov 24, 2018
    ISBN9781646390243
    Inside Voice: Haunted Coal Ridge, #10
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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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      Inside Voice - 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.

      Inside Voice

      Coal Ridge, November 2, 2017

      Where’d you go, you asshole, Caleb muttered quietly, moving slowly along the steel pipe-tiled wall toward the next intersection. Following the prick with the grenade launcher down into the steam tunnels without being seen hadn’t been easy, and now he’d lost him.

      Limited visibility made the tunnels a more intimate battle zone than the city ruins. Of course, if he hadn’t wasted so much ammo with amateur spray-and-pray tactics, he could still be up there sniping. Instead, he needed to get the grenade launcher to make a path to the big ammo cache in the Media Tower.

      But that prick picked it up first.

      Wiping sweat from his furrowed brow, Caleb looked for any sign of movement. The steam pockets offered excellent cover but made it incredibly difficult to hunt. Having spent lots of time in the tunnels early on, he knew the best places to hide, but his prey wouldn’t be hiding. The tunnels let you bypass the meat grinder of Lowtown and get to the subway platform. But without the rocket launcher, you’d never get past the jerks who camped the station stairs.

      Footsteps echoed in the tunnel.

      I hate this.

      He knew that learning to hunt in these low-visibility areas

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