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    Quarry Lake
    Quarry Lake
    Quarry Lake
    Ebook43 pages35 minutes

    Quarry Lake

    By Kelson Hargis

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    Seeing ghosts is so passe anymore. A whole cottage industry of capturing and publishing them in a blizzard of mediums and outlets has exploded in popular culture. Even speaking to them has had the whole eerie mystery sucked right out of it by reality show mediums What if the dead desperately needed something other than communion with the living though? What if there were consequences for ignoring them? Deadly consequences. How much or who would you sacrifice to avoid their demands?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKelson Hargis
    Release dateJan 15, 2014
    ISBN9781310100031
    Quarry Lake
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    Kelson Hargis

    Kelson Hargis is an author, analyst, and professional technical writer for a Fortune 100© insurer. He has a B.S.|B.A. in Organizational Innovation which he’s found to be completely useless. He’s also an internet entrepreneur and partner at 1106 & Darkhouse Films where he’s still forbidden from touching any equipment. Their 2016 Cincinnati 48 Hour Film Project entry Abaddon was critically acclaimed by close friends, relatives, and anyone remotely familiar with the disturbing nature of Kelson’s horror fiction. He’s occasionally permitted to relieve himself, eat, or sleep when he meets scripting word counts, casting, sourcing, and project management objectives. Kelson has published horror shorts such as Elijah’s Phone, Festival of Ghosts, and Acta Somnium under his brand HorrorByHargis. He's determined to prove his sanity to family and friends by publishing a compilation of modern realistic shorts called True Stories & Other Fantastic Tales, then despoil that with a supernatural, thriller novella, Karma, Pleasure & Pain both of which are almost done (really). Please don’t startle Kelson should you encounter him as he is considered "clinically unstable.” He is a contributing author of the horror anthology, Shadows And Teeth, Volume 2.

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      Quarry Lake - Kelson Hargis

      Quarry Lake

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      Also by Kelson Hargis: "Language Arts Don't let those innocent cherubs on the wildly out of place cover fool you, this little ditty comes at you like a runaway freight train. The author nails you and then just won't let up. Language Arts has one of the most intriguing concepts I've read lately: the power of language." —Ed Morawski, Amazon.com

      Other free stories by Kelson Hargis:

      Nuked an essay on personal heroes (about a 5 min. read). Sublime, magnificent, deeply meaningful. You have created a masterpiece of human emotion. —Marcus R., Readwave.com.

      Breeze an essay about the supernatural in everyday life (about a 4 min. read). Brilliant piece, beautifully written. You describe the supernatural moment with elegance. I love how you tie it together at the beginning and end with the idea of synchronicity. —Emma T. Readwave.com

      Acta Somnium (The Dream Journal) a horror, thriller short: All your dreams will come true (about a 15 min. read). —Chilling, disturbing in a way reminiscent of Stephen King. Second look video reviews by S.I. D., Wattpad.com

      Quarry Lake

      A ghost story

      by Kelson Hargis

      Copyright 2014 Kelson Hargis

      Smashwords Edition

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1: Whit

      Chapter 2: Whit & Sharon

      Chapter 3: Whit & John

      Chapter 4: Tachycardia

      Chapter 5: Quarry Lake

      Chapter 1: Whit

      Ghosts beset Whit not long after the loss of his brother John though only fragments of their summer day at the Quarry Lake remained for him. The memories could be better called pictures. They pervaded his recollections in the same way that the presentations of his childhood lessons did before there were televisions in every classroom; goofy slide shows warning about

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