Chapter Twenty-Three — What We Become Steve woke to Alex standing over him. For several seconds he didn’t recognise his son. Not because Alex looked different. Because he wasn’t doing anything. Just standing there. Barefoot. Silent. Watching. Steve blinked. ‘Alex?’ Nothing. The house was dark. 3:17 glowed
When a president fears the verdict of the voters, the machinery of government should never become his insurance policy. PRAGMATIC ISSUES | SPECIAL REPORT | OCTOBER 30, 2026 Four days. That is all that remains before Americans head to the polls for the November 3 midterm elections. Four days before millions of
Something Wicked This Way Comes Pragmatic Issues | Wednesday, 28 October 2026 There is an old saying about haunted houses. The dead are rarely the problem. It’s the living who refuse to leave. Welcome to Washington, D.C., where the corridors are crowded with political ghosts, the closets are overflowing
By: C.M. Clark A Halloween Political Op-Ed Even the Dead Have Standards WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that has frightened Americans for generations. Its walls have witnessed wars, scandals, betrayals, affairs, impeachments, and enough political backstabbing to keep a cemetery fully occupied.
By: C.M. Clark Chapter Twenty-One — The Son Nobody slept after the dead came to the house. Steve tried. He sat on the sofa until sunrise with a baseball bat across his knees. It was ridiculous. Everybody knew it was ridiculous. The thing upstairs had worn Laura’s voice.
By: C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Nineteen — What Belongs to You The morning after Alex turned eighteen, there was dirt beneath his fingernails. He noticed it while brushing his teeth. Black. Packed deep beneath every nail. Alex frowned. He hadn’t been outside. Not since Steve dragged him
By Cristal M Clark PROLOGUE Amelia told Jack that she graduated from college but a misspelling caused a delay in her diploma arriving one, of the many lies that she told him about herself and her life. Little did she know that her personal life was about to become a
THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Sixteen — The People We Love By morning, nobody wanted to try again. That was perhaps the strangest part. They should have. Steve knew that. A rational person would have driven east. Then west. Taken another road. Called the police. Called the highway patrol. Called somebody and
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BY C.M. CLARK Chapter Thirteen — Nora August 1975 Nora Miller could talk Steve into almost anything. That was the problem. ‘Dad will kill us.’ ‘Dad has to find out first.’ ‘He always finds out.’ ‘Because you confess.’ ‘I don’t confess.’ Nora looked at him. Steve sighed. ‘I occasionally
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Ten — Three People Nobody mentioned what happened at the Buffalo. Not properly. That was how the Miller family dealt with things. They didn’t. Steve came home. Alex came home. Jessica asked where they’d been. Steve said, ‘The Buffalo.’ Jessica laughed.
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Seven — Passing Through The missing couple had been married for six months. Nobody in Idaho Springs knew that yet. Nobody knew their names. Nobody knew they were missing. At 4:18 on Friday afternoon, they were simply another pair of tourists getting
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter Four — Things People Say By Monday, Alex had decided there were two Idaho Springs. There was the one tourists saw. That Idaho Springs smelled like pizza, coffee, beer and sugar. It sold polished stones, Colorado T-shirts, antiques and things made from
By C.M. Clark THE HOLLOW SEASON Chapter One — Welcome to Idaho Springs Idaho Springs, Colorado — 1984 The first mistake was deciding they weren’t drunk enough. The second was leaving the hotel. There were four of them, all barely old enough to understand that twenty-one wasn’t nearly
By: Cristal M Clark The Black Water By C.M. Clark 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.
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Chapter One - Twenty-Seven Steps By C.M. Clark 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Every haunting begins with something left unfinished.” It always starts with silence not the peaceful kind, but the kind that seems to watch you back. As October fades and the air bites with frost, we tell ourselves ghosts are metaphors. Memory tricks. Bad wiring. But there’s something older at
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Why the Cleveland Torso Killer, Glasgow’s Butcher, and the Black Dahlia Murder May Share One Hand for Pragmatic Issues Just in time for Halloween, we thought it would be fitting to revisit three old, and by old i am talking the 1930's old unsolved crimes. Some would
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The Amityville Horror Phenomenon A Story that Freaked Out a Nation - Might Be More False Than it is True Cristal M Clark Back on July 27, 1979 when the Amityville Horror movie was first released people were mesmerized and quite frankly pretty freaked out, it was based on the true
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Freddy Krueger - Fact or Fiction The Real Story Behind the Inspiration Cristal M Clark Every October stories start to emerge and spread across the internet with regards to our most beloved horror flicks. Take for example A Nightmare on Elm Street, the original one of my childhood favs. Every year