Midwestern Requiem
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Last published Tue, Aug 28, 2018
Midwestern Requiem is a horror serial set in the mythic Midwest of Southern Illinois's Little Egypt, suburban sprawl trapped between the crumbling outlet malls and the endless fields of corn bisected by lost highways to nowhere. Kitchen witches and small-town teachers stand against eternal winters and the lies we tell ourselves under a land-locked moon.
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