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Last published Mon, Mar 23, 2015
Alfred F. Jones, known as the confident and childish video game enthusiast of Brooklyn, recently graduated high school in the year of 1992 and is on the search for a good-paying job in order to save up for college next year. He is determined to find out what he wants to do in life. All he knows is that he wants to help people, to be someone others could look to, to be a hero. It isn't until one night he stumbles upon an old junk shop called, "Retrograde," when he finds all the answers he needs. Right when he sets a foot through the door he realizes it isn't just a shabby knick-knack store. The shop has a spooky feel, shadows crawl across the wallpaper on their own accord, and things always seem to be going missing. During the late hours of one evening he gets to meet the one causing all these odd occurrences, a ghost with the name, "Arthur Kirkland."
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