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THE BLACK WATER
Part One Chapter One — Beneath the Lighthouse Rosie MacLeod knew her mother was dead before anyone said her name. Years later, when people asked how she had known, Rosie would struggle to explain it. There had been no premonition. No strange dream. No telephone ringing in the middle of the night. Only a…
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The Retrieved Chapters Nine & Ten
Chapter 9 The Archive That Didn’t Exist Jonah Reed had learned years ago that the government never truly erased anything. People disappeared. Records disappeared. Photographs disappeared. But information had a habit of surviving inside forgotten filing cabinets, abandoned hard drives, and the minds of people who drank too much near closing time.…
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The Retrieved Chapters Seven & Eight
CHAPTER SEVEN Always on the Run For several seconds, Jonah Reed stood alone in his office and understood something his body had known before his mind. You cannot trust the Government. He looked down at the stack of paperwork. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HENRY CALDER Jonah stopped. He remembered Henry. Experienced hiker. Thirty-one…
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THE RETRIEVED Part One – Chapter Five & Six
CHAPTER FIVE A short story by C. M Clark Someone Is Following Jonah Reed The first thing Jonah Reed did after collecting the package was throw the envelope away. The second thing he did was retrieve it from the rubbish bin three minutes later. Old habits. He spread the torn envelope…
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THE RETRIEVED Part One – Chapter Three and Four
CHAPTER THREE A short story by C. M Clark He Was Never Found Mara Vey did not go home early. She considered it. At 10:17 that morning, she stood in the women’s restroom on the fourth floor and stared at herself beneath fluorescent lights that made everyone look recently exhumed. Her hands had…
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THE RETRIEVED
Part One CHAPTER ONE Twenty-Seven Steps Four-year-old Emma Voss disappeared twenty-seven steps from her mother. Her father would count them later. Again and again. Twenty-seven steps from the firepit to the place where Emma had been sitting in the dirt, pushing a pinecone through a circle of stones she’d arranged beneath a hemlock tree.…
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Something is coming.
Something is coming. Not this weekend. Cristal M Clark Soon. Four-year-old Emma Voss disappeared twenty-seven steps from her mother in the Smoky Mountains. Four days later, she was found eleven miles away. Two thousand three hundred feet higher. Barefoot. Badly mutilated. Beneath six of her fingernails, investigators found human tissue. One DNA profile belonged to…
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Appalachia: The Mountains That Were Ancient Before Humanity Existed
Once upon a time not so very long ago I found myself lost in the Appalachian Mountains. I was driving from Florida back to Colorado and I took a series of wrong turns heading out of Georgia to Virginia Beach, a place I always wanted to visit because my dad talked about it. Those series…
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Breaking Colorado, Breaking News, Chasing Ghosts, News, Unsolved Crimes, Unsolved Murder Tara Calico
You know what’s not going to be embarrassingly empty this weekend?
Pride celebrations. Because unlike Trump’s $250 “Great American State Fair,” people actually want to attend them. Photos from Trump’s patriotic extravaganza spread across social media this week, and let’s just say the atmosphere fell somewhere between “county fair on a Tuesday morning during a tornado warning” and “Fyre Festival for people who collect commemorative…
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The Luxury Badge Tax
How We Learned to Pay Extra for the Same Vehicle There are few moments in adulthood more humbling than discovering that the luxury vehicle you’ve been admiring is essentially the same machine wearing a more expensive outfit. For years, consumers have been conditioned to believe that luxury brands possess some kind of secret automotive sorcery.…
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Chasing Ghosts – Berthoud Pass-Colorado
The Mountain That Keeps Its Dead Some places earn a reputation. Berthoud Pass earned a warning. Long before ski lifts climbed its slopes and long before tourists pulled over to photograph its breathtaking views, the pass was known for something far darker. Sudden storms. Deadly avalanches. Travelers who vanished into the snow. Men and women…
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Chasing Ghosts – Haunted Colorado Roads Part 2
Phantom Canyon Road, and the Dead Who Never Finished Their Journey Some roads take you home. Others take you somewhere you were never meant to go. Colorado is filled with mountain highways, forgotten mining routes, and winding passes that disappear into the wilderness. Most are beautiful. Some are dangerous. A few are something else entirely.…
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Chasing Ghosts – Not Every Road Wants Visitors
Three Colorado Roads Where Legends Refuse to Die. There is a moment that every ghost hunter knows. It happens long after the city lights disappear. The radio begins to fade into static. The road narrows. The darkness deepens. And suddenly you realize there is nothing around you for miles. No houses. No traffic. No witnesses.…
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