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A Badlands Christmas
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Ongoing, First published Dec 16, 2020
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Serena and Brinley are two of the five at risk teenage campers who travelled to the Badlands, South Dakota for a quick getaway with a counseling group three days before Christmas 2009. The worst snowstorm the Midwest has seen in years forces the group into a cave with limited supply of food and water. Three days go by and they are still trapped. As the park closes early on Christmas Eve, counselor Chelsea Sanders goes out seeking help and never returns.  Christmas morning, Serena convinces fellow campmate Brinley to go searching for their counselor.  Trekking through yards of ice, sleet, and snow, Serena realizes this Christmas might not bring its Christmas miracle that her heart longed for. 

This mystery story will send ripples through your spine and make you feel as though you are standing in the frozen Badlands along with the characters. Will the girls find Chelsea? Or will they find something else?

Read this short story: "A Badlands Christmas" by Constantina Pappas and find out.
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The Forgotten Trails

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