Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home
calamityzelda
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  • Reads 249
  • Votes 25
  • Parts 9
  • Time 55m
calamityzelda
Ongoing, First published Jun 10, 2020
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Thaddeus Gale lives alone with his cat in a cabin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He never has visitors, no one has his phone number, and he likes it this way thank you very much. But, his pleasant routine is rocked when friend, former coworker, and amateur paranormal investigator Eliza Byrd tracks him down and ropes him into solving a weird murder in Monongahela National Forest. What will happen if he goes? And what's up with that black ooze in the woods?

A tale of friendship, mystery, and Ulysses by James Joyce.
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Echoes Of Silence {EOS}✔ Completed

27 parts Complete

The story centers around a teen boy in a small town of Crow hills, who wakes up without remembering anything and was at the scene of the murders of two people. But When dead bodies starts pilling up with no tangible suspect, the police realized they may be dealing with a serial killer...... And Terrance James realized he may be the murderer due to his constant blacked out and always waking up at the crime scene..... Join Terrance on his journey in solving this puzzle and catching the real killer NOTE: This is a first draft and unedited with lot of tense mistake and typo error. So read at your own risk

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