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The Second Stage

benjaminburkett

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Reads 216
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Parts 31
Time 2h 52m

benjaminburkett

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A world unseen dies over and over.  It shrieks at a pitch that you cannot hear.  It rots with a stench that you will never quite know.  It isn't a place meant for you and I, it is merely a bank for the dead and  dying; a vault of visceral agony.   It's function, origin and purpose are as cryptic and chilling as the vengeful spirits whose claws scratch and teeth rattle just beyond the thick, putrid mist that seeps over its endless surface.  Yet, through all the horrifying and inexplicable unknowns, this place has one certainty: it doesn't take kindly to guests.

Meredith Haynes fell into The Second Stage during a routine surgery she was monitoring.  She scrambled through it's empty expanses and fled from the decaying demonic mockery of a human being.  With good fortune and great agility for a woman her age, she escaped with both her life and sanity, a miracle should miracles exist.  Anyone of sound mind would never return, and spend the rest of their days in the company of friends and nights in the company of bright lights.  However, Meredith met someone she never expected to see again, someone that might remove her from the ranks of those well advised souls that would never return.  Now, in the days of silence thereafter, her mind wanders back to the one thing that might convince her to return, the one thing that will convince her to return.  But what Meredith doesn't yet understand, is that the Second Stage has no windows, no entrances and no exits, for it accepts you when it wishes and releases you when it's finished.All Rights Reserved

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... WHISPER BENEATH THE MIST... by avni_10

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... WHISPER BENEATH THE MIST...

There is a town where no sound exists. And something is listening. When investigative journalist Tamara Anderson stumbles upon an isolated town shrouded in an unnatural, suffocating silence, they think it's just another strange mystery waiting to be uncovered. But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes-anyone who makes a sound vanishes into the mist, their voices returning as whispers in the night. The townspeople refuse to explain. They only warn: never speak, never break the silence. But the Tamara refuses to obey. As the fog thickens, they begin to hear voices-voices of those who are supposed to be dead. Something ancient and hungry is stirring beneath the mist, and the silence is the only thing keeping it contained. With time running out, they risk everything to escape. They break the silence. They flee. They survive. Or so they think. As they step into the world beyond the town, ready to scream for help, a chilling realization hits them like a death sentence- The world outside has gone silent too. --- Now marked by the very thing she came to expose, Tamara must unravel the town's terrifying secrets before she becomes the next to vanish. But in BLACKWATER , some truths are better left buried. Because once the fog knows your name... It never lets you go. ---