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seconds, fighting gravity, and then toppled. She let out a brief scream before her head cracked hard on the gleaming white floor tiles. The thud reverberated around the kitchen.
    Barbara sat astride her dazed friend and pried the top off the tub of Whiter than White, throwing it to aside. She reached in, her fingers finding the round abrasive scrubber and closing over it. Next, humming a tune that had been rattling around her brain for days, and with a wide grin on her face, she loaded up with powder and went to work…
     
    ***
     
    Barbara sat on the floor, her chest heaving from the exertion.
    The screaming had finally died down to a wet gurgle, and then stopped altogether. It was funny how she’d noticed all those other blemishes once she started scrubbing, a mole here, and a freckle there.
    The tub of Whiter than White lay half empty on the floor next to her, it’s top lost somewhere under the table. It had certainly done its job though.
    She admired her handiwork, studied the gleaming white skull that stared up at her without so much as an ounce of appreciation. At least Emily would not have to worry about those unsightly hives now. Not that she had said thank you of course, that would be too much.
    Barbara looked down at herself, at her dress, her legs and arms, all covered in her friend’s blood. That would never do. She picked up the tub of cleaner and dunked the scrubber down into the powder once more, and went to work. She rubbed, moving the pad over her knees, her thighs, ignoring the pain that flared with each pass. Soon she’d be spotless just like Emily, and it was all because of her new tub of cleaning powder. Thank heaven for Whiter than White…
     
    The End
     

     
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    It’s been fifteen years since Ben and his father buried the time capsule in the woods. Now Ben is returning to dig it up. But things have changed. The woods are not the happy place they once were. What starts out as a weekend camping trip to rekindle old memories and have some fun turns into a nightmare for Ben and his girlfriend, Sally. By the time they realize their mistake, it’s too late. There’s something evil at the old campground, and it doesn’t want them to leave.
     
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    What Vengeance Comes
    John Decker left Wolf Haven, Louisiana, to escape the memories of his troubled past, believing he would never return. But after twenty years working for a big city police department, he suddenly finds himself back in Wolf Haven, taking the reigns as the town’s sheriff. Expecting to spend his time dealing with the trivialities of small town life, the occasional drunk, cats stuck in trees, and domestic altercations, he instead finds a vicious killer picking off the residents one by one. Scrambling to find answers before anyone else dies, Decker stumbles across an age-old superstition, a terrifying creature conjured from the depths of hell to seek revenge.
     
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    Prologue
     
     
     
    32 Years Ago
     
    THE WAITING ROOM WAS COLD and clinical. An odor of disinfectant clung to the air, cloying and pungent. Concealed fluorescent lighting, set into the ceiling behind yellowed plastic grilles, bounced a cool white glow from the dull gray walls, giving the appearance that the whole room was somehow overexposed, making everything appear almost painfully bright.
    A row of hard plastic chairs lined the wall, empty except for one, upon which perched a ten-year-old boy, his curly black hair cropped short, a small