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"The sky was a dreary shade of grey and the air smelled like a storm was approaching..."
"The foster home, where I grew up, was across the isolated dirt road from a neglected cemetery..."
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"I didn't know what it was, but I had felt ill most of the morning, and as the day wore on, I began to feel weaker and weaker..."
"Riding my horse on the trails, deep in the colorful woods in the fall, had been a favorite activity since my teenage years, but I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong that first morning in late October. I could tell that my pinto, Cherokee, was on edge and spooked as each falling leaf whipped past us in the brisk winds that had suddenly come up...."
"It was just the typical Halloween costume party with everyone happy to be inside near the fireplace, since the air had turned quickly cold earlier in the day. Until, that is, Travis arrived wearing a very convincing costume of a ...."