Behind The Locks || ONC 2024
LiamMcMarsha
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  • Reads 1,928
  • Votes 1,513
  • Parts 25
  • Time 1h 49m
LiamMcMarsha
Complete, First published Feb 02, 2024
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LONGLISTED ONC 2024 Open Novella contest  🏆 
Horror.
Courtesy of ONC2024 Novella Contest
LONGLISTED Natto Watt 2024🏆

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Every tick-tock that counts can cost your life, and as each door shuts don't look behind.

At Arielline's first day in her first job she discovers that the library she will be working in is very haunted, and there is more to it.

The twelve locks of Twelve Locks Valley are tangled to her. Every wrong door is leather, and any wrong timing can make her part of of the ghost community.

ONC 2024 
Prompt 97
It is your first day at your first job, and you discover that the library you'll be working in is very haunted.

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