Edium
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Last published Sun, Oct 9, 2016
Canadian adventure novelist Marcie Otterman lives a simple and quite life in London, England. She enjoys binge watching The X Files, eating BBQ chicken pizza, and writing as ideas pop into her head. Life is perfect and her career is just beginning to take flight. What more could she ask for?
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One day, as Marcie is heading home she notices two men in fine black tailored suits and dark shades shadowing their eyes, following her. They never approach her or threaten her so she thinks nothing of it.
Weeks pass and each time she's out and about, she can't help but notice the odd men always, always close by. She soon relizes this isn't normal and locks herself in her apartment for weeks on end. Marcie could be overreacting and paranoid, for all she knows they could just be showing up in coincidence.
Then one night when Marcie is sound a sleep in her bed, she is taken. Taken somewhere she made up only in her mind: Edium.
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