Well | h.s.
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SPOOKY SHORT STORY | Remember the nursery rhyme of the boy who fell into the well?
That boy grew into a man and he's still down there, longing for someone to find him and bring him back to the surface.
When a paranoid woman happens upon him, she learns the terrible fate of the boy from the nursery rhyme that has left her neurotic for years.
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BLURB: She fell and rose again minus her heart. She had lost her life and her breaths tainted her future. She knew it was wrong that HE was wrong but who was she when he had made sure she would be his whether she liked it or not. He was the pakhan and she was his twisted little obsession but his past was tainted with the same malicious fingers as hers but he would have her. She was his. She just did not realise it yet and well let's just say he was not that interested in informing her prior to his plans. What will happen when the secrets of the past will be unveiled? Will she forgive her tormentor? Or will the tormentor again torment her past?
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