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    Just Beyond the Other Side Vol 1: Just Beyond the Other Side, #1
    Just Beyond the Other Side Vol 1: Just Beyond the Other Side, #1
    Just Beyond the Other Side Vol 1: Just Beyond the Other Side, #1
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    Just Beyond the Other Side Vol 1: Just Beyond the Other Side, #1

    By Aaron Paige

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    A collection of short horror and science fiction stories with no discernible central theme.

    Just Another Day: A man figures out that wants to escape the life he is living.

    The Panic Room: A man wakes up in a concrete box with no way out.

    Closed Eyes: A woman hears rumors of intrigue and decides to check these rumors out for herself.

    There Are a Few Things I Haven't Mentioned...: A journalist crashes his car and another man brings him to the hospital before becoming friends. There is more to his friend than he thinks though...

    Love Thy Neighbor: A man moves into a new neighborhood only to find out that the people livng there act very strange. He's about to see just how strange they are.

    Wagon Man: A brother and sister comb through a concrete wasteland trying to survive. When his sister disappears, he goes to look for her.

    Stumble: Being drunk isn't all it's cracked up to be...

    From Womb to Grave: A girl is born and resists all of life's temptations.

    Shunt: A policewoman is shown a video of something very disturbing.

    Fanciful Spoons: You don't know how much you love something until it's gone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAaron Paige
    Release dateApr 13, 2015
    ISBN9781513060071
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      Just Beyond the Other Side Vol 1 - Aaron Paige

      Table of Contents

      Just Another Day

      The Panic Room

      Closed Eyes

      There Are a Few Things I Haven't Mentioned...

      Love Thy Neighbour

      Wagon Man

      Stumble

      From Womb to Grave

      Shunt

      Fanciful Spoons

      Just Another Day

      I would wake up in the morning, take a shower, have my breakfast, get dressed, and get ready for work. I would then drive to work, do whatever I needed to do, come back, watch some TV, do things around the house, get ready for bed, and go to sleep.

      This was how my day was like. This was how every day was like. I thought this was how everybody lived. But apparently this was not the case. My name was Man and we were told not to change our routine for any reason. If we did, they said to us, then something quite unpleasant would happen.

      The sun rarely came out but this was one of those times where there was neither clouds or smog and it was visible over the the wall. It made me slightly happier and I smiled as I drove into work. I drove the same route everyday passing buildings that looked oh so similar to each other. It put me into a trance and I'd arrive feeling rather refreshed.

      I didn't even know what a day was until someone told me that it was the same thing as what we'd call a revolution, a cycle of day and night. We would also use fractions in place of time. It took me a while to get used to the concept of it all. I want to know more; so much more. But they hid much from us and it may not be possible to learn all that I want to know.

      I had a job at the office at one time, it was very tedious work. I think it had to do with statistics of some kind, something about dying. Anyways, it was about 8 hours of work and i'd be 45 minutes through when Friend asks how I'm doing and I would answer back that I'm doing fine. He then proceeds to talk about his family, how they are doing, what they're doing and so on. He would end the discussion and we would then get back to work. Now that I think about it, it's almost like we were doing rehearsal over and over. I don't know how I lived through it all.

      He had to do this everyday since it was part of the routine. On my 2649th day at work, (yes I count them) he informs me that Coworker hasn't been in for the last couple of days. It was considered quite worrisome. Friend told me that they might have discovered Coworker stumbling on a forbidden word or at least that's what he thought. He thinks that they might be disciplining him.

      Friend whispers that he knows that Coworker found a forbidden word since Friend walked by Coworker's cubicle and heard him mumbling what sounded like to Friend was the word vacation. Nobody knew what it meant and nobody really cared 'cept for me.

      I was intrigued by the word and it soon sparked an intense feeling of curiosity within me. It was like an empty bag in the water. You could push it down all you want but it would keep coming back up. It would continually surface; you just couldn't get rid of it. It dominated my mind for the rest of the day and eventually, I gave in.

      I looked everywhere I could but I didn't come up with anything. So the next day I asked Friend what site Coworker was on when he discovered this word. He replied that he didn't know and that really, he didn't want to know as it only lead to trouble. Why? I had asked. He put his mouth to my ear and whispered that they track our movements and that revealing what they do could lead to extreme punishments. They could be watching us right now he said sounding quite worried. I was puzzled as to how he knew this so I simply whispered how? But he ignored the question and went on in normal conversation and I just went along with it.

      When I had gotten home it felt... different. I didn't know how to describe it then. It just felt darker if I could even say that but I wanted to continue my search for the meaning of vacation so I did. A while later I thought I heard something but had thought nothing of it. A short time after that I heard something else so I went to check it out but I couldn't find anything unusual. Before I got back to my search though I heard what I thought was a whisper. I really didn't know what to think at the time. I looked around to try and find out where it was coming from but still nothing.

      I felt uncomfortable at this point then I suddenly heard another whisper but this time it didn't stop. Others seemed to join it. At first I couldn't hear what they were saying. They were indiscernible. They were a medley of voices. As they got louder however, the words they said became clearer an they transformed into voices.

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