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The restaurant was the same as always: Sunset Grille, a local classic just a few blocks from Palisades High School. A modest but warm place, its walls were dec...
2025-06-06 17:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Friday, December 1st — 2009
Palisades Training Field — 3:47 PM
The football team was in their final practice before the regional ...
2025-06-05 16:01:14 +0000 UTC
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The wind sliced at perfect angles against Luke’s telekinetic shield.
He was traveling at a relatively low speed for his current level, barely two hundred kilometers per hour. He floated thr...
2025-06-03 18:37:44 +0000 UTC
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Monday, November 27 – 2009
Almost a month had passed since Halloween, when the Dunphy haunted house created a new urban legend.
In football, several things h...
2025-06-03 17:56:15 +0000 UTC
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"You may kill him now."
The abominable servant took a step toward Donovan.
But the old Marlowe patriarch, drenched in blood, his face bruised and his eyes blazing with fury, did somethi...
2025-06-02 16:30:11 +0000 UTC
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The second group of victims, as Claire liked to call them, entered the house.
Three kids stepped through the entrance. The first, a boy around ten years old, tall for his age, with brown skin...
2025-06-01 17:33:29 +0000 UTC
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“Let’s go,” said the girl confidently. “We can do this.”
The girl and the boy stepped into the second room with confidence. However, as the door shut behind them, their previous cer...
2025-05-30 17:11:10 +0000 UTC
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Inside the Marlowe estate, the tension was thick.
Mr. Marlowe was breathing heavily. A deep gash on the left side of his abdomen soaked his shirt with blood, barely allowing him to stay uprig...
2025-05-29 20:48:44 +0000 UTC
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The first room was ready. Though not entirely...
At that moment, Cam approached Claire holding a skull-shaped glass filled with juice and said in a tragic tone, “Claire… I don’t know if...
2025-05-29 15:57:52 +0000 UTC
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A raven, its feathers black as the abyss, pecked frantically and insistently at the glass. This was no ordinary raven.
Wednesday crossed the room, opened the window, and let the messenger in....
2025-05-28 18:09:27 +0000 UTC
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“Willa?!” exclaimed Haley, surprised and excited to see her. “I can’t believe you’re here! Why didn’t you tell me?!”
“Surprise,” Willa replied with a barely tilted smile, ne...
2025-05-27 17:05:16 +0000 UTC
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Mitchell was driving in silence.
Cam rode in the passenger seat, occasionally glancing at Willa’s costume like a proud casting director.
In the back seat, Andrew and Willa sat togethe...
2025-05-26 17:00:49 +0000 UTC
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[General Pov]
“Wednesday! You won’t believe what Thing did today,” Enid said through laughter, bouncing into the room with cheerful steps and slightly tousled hair. The...
2025-05-26 16:39:18 +0000 UTC
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[General POV]
"Don't thank me just yet. If everything goes well, you'll owe me one," said Willa with a smile.
And just as she said that, Cam walked into the living room...
2025-05-25 16:01:53 +0000 UTC
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[Willa's POV]
The sun was high in the sky, shining directly onto the bleachers at the Palisades field when I arrived. I was about thirty minutes early from the time Andrew an...
2025-05-23 17:54:44 +0000 UTC
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"Ta-da," said Mitchell, raising his arms in a sort of heroic pose.
Andrew exhaled through his nose.
He pressed his lips together and brought a hand to the bridge of his nose, as if tryi...
2025-05-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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[Wednesday’s POV]
Journal Entry – March 25
It’s been ten days since the mission involving the deranged cultist who created the chimera b...
2025-05-21 16:45:14 +0000 UTC
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7:14 a.m.
The smell of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen. The toaster worked at a steady pace, and the pan sizzled with unenthusiastic scrambled eggs. Everyth...
2025-05-20 16:29:12 +0000 UTC
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[Pritchett-Tucker House]
Tuesday, October 31 – 2009
Cameron woke up in the middle of the night. His eyes opened slowly and with difficulty, ...
2025-05-19 18:45:57 +0000 UTC
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[Wednesday's POV]
The trip to the town took us about forty-five minutes. Not bad, we covered 200 kilometers.
The journey was silent, not out of discomfort, but for the ...
2025-05-19 18:02:28 +0000 UTC
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'What the hell!? Why is she a teenager!?' Andrew thought, confused.
He recognized her perfectly. But it didn’t make any sense.
Friends was from '94. In his previous world, Monica was ...
2025-05-18 17:36:54 +0000 UTC
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The elevator closed gently with a soft beep, and the group was enveloped in a brief moment of silence.
There they all were: Andrew, Reggie, Archie, Steve, Kevin, Howard with the camera in han...
2025-05-16 15:40:19 +0000 UTC
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[Wednesday's POV]
Journal Entry - February 28
A month has passed. The war continues in silence. Its intensity has increased slightly,...
2025-05-16 15:15:08 +0000 UTC
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Sunday, October 8, 2009
The day of Andrew’s meetup with his subscribers had finally arrived.
Andrew left home about forty-five minutes early. Naturally, his ...
2025-05-15 15:43:09 +0000 UTC
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[Wednesday's POV]
Journal Entry – January 28
The days go by, slow and repetitive, at least during daylight hours.
At Nevermor...
2025-05-13 19:04:02 +0000 UTC
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The party went on. Laughter, music, groups chatting.
Howard was still unsuccessfully trying to flirt, approaching any girl that breathed. His tactics fluctuated between adorably clumsy and cl...
2025-05-13 17:21:29 +0000 UTC
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The party at Liam’s house was still going strong.
The night was just right: not too chaotic, not too calm to be boring.
There were people laughing, background music playing, groups ch...
2025-05-12 14:36:28 +0000 UTC
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[Wednesday’s POV]
January 12
I returned to Nevermore on Monday, feeling renewed.
After spending the entire weekend with Luke,...
2025-05-10 16:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Liam’s parents’ house was spacious, two stories tall, located in a quiet residential neighborhood not far from the Dunphys’ home.
But the party wasn’t inside the house.
Everythi...
2025-05-09 17:10:35 +0000 UTC
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Manual Arts vs. Palisades – Fourth Quarter – 00:42 on the clock
The scoreboard was brutal:
Manual Arts High School 7 – Palisades 65
2025-05-08 15:45:28 +0000 UTC
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