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    Treasure Mine: Haunted Coal Ridge, #6
    Treasure Mine: Haunted Coal Ridge, #6
    Treasure Mine: Haunted Coal Ridge, #6
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    Treasure Mine: Haunted Coal Ridge, #6

    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 6: "Treasure Mine"

    Best friends. Lucky people have one. Joey, Mickey, and Chris each have two.

    When one of them is being forced to move away, the other two decide that they're going to do whatever it takes to keep them together, even if it means ignoring the warning signs and delving into an abandoned coal mine in search of gold. Unfortunately, the chest they find doesn't contain treasure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriting Distracted
    Release dateSep 2, 2018
    ISBN9781646390168
    Treasure Mine: Haunted Coal Ridge, #6
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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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      Treasure Mine - 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.

      Treasure Mine

      October 12th, 2017

      It’s no one’s fault. Things like this happen. Though she tried, Margie Sharper couldn’t say much to console her twelve-year-old son as one of his best friends prepared to move away.

      It’s not fair, the boy responded, eyebrows knit in an angry pout and arms firmly crossed over his chest.

      Aw, cuddle bug, she said, wrapping her arms around him and squeezing tight, who told you life is fair? Many contemporary parents might call her words cruel, but she knew well that no one outside this house cared about his feelings. Overly coddling him now would just make life more difficult later. Of course, as his mother, she could at least embrace him in a loving hug.

      But why isn’t it fair? Joey asked, his voice tight. Blinking back tears because his older brother had told him that men don’t cry, he sniffled and wiped his sleeve across his nose.

      That’s just the way life is. Sometimes good things happen, and sometimes bad things happen. You can only control how you deal with it. That’s why you should always be grateful for the good things. Margie felt like an expert in bad things happening—her husband of fourteen years, James,

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