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Campfire Frights From Troop 15 continues with Brayden's Story

Campfire Frights From Troop 15 continues with Brayden's Story

When she saw what made her trip she furrowed her brow in confusion. What she was seeing didn't line up with where she was and the resulting optical illusion gave her nausea. A small creeping voice in the back of her head grew loud enough for her to actually process what it had been whispering for the last two hours: she was in trouble. 
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Second Saturday Stories gets it's 'fright on' all October

Second Saturday Stories gets it's 'fright on' all October

When a scout camp is inexplicably locked when they arrive, four Boyscouts amuse themselves telling scary stories around the campfire while the Scouter tries to open the camp.
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Second Saturday Stories presents Bullet Drop: Part 2

Second Saturday Stories presents Bullet Drop: Part 2

The seconds of hang time between the bullet leaving the rifle and hitting its target carry an anticipatory eventuality. It’s one time, maybe the only time, that the mortality of a person can be measured. That feeling, that intimacy through such a vast expanse. In those seconds my dream of working undercover burned away, I didn't have the stomach for it after all. 
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Crime thriller concludes today in Second Saturday Stories.

Crime thriller concludes today in Second Saturday Stories.

Part 2 picks up with our narrator caught in the aftermath of his debt. When his family is threatened he has no alternative but to play a role in a deadly bid for power within the very criminal element he yearns to bring down. Minutes before he pulls the trigger our narrator stumbles on a murder already committed
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Bullet Drop Part 1: A Second Saturday Story

Bullet Drop Part 1: A Second Saturday Story

The guys made room in the booth. One of them with a hearing aid in a Tommy Bahama button up asked if I had ante to be big blind. I felt 7 sets of eyes turn to me. I should have recognized the look wolves give mutton. 
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Crime thriller featured today in Second Saturday Stories

Crime thriller featured today in Second Saturday Stories

When a police cadet stumbles upon a dead body while repaying a mob debt, he has ten minutes to find the killer
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BayToday is a platform for local writers. Second Saturday Stories wants to hear from you

BayToday is a platform for local writers. Second Saturday Stories wants to hear from you

You have something you’ve been working on. Or maybe you know someone who goes out and does their 9-5 and then seals themselves behind that door of creativity for a few hours every night. Or you are one of the rare lucky ones who has transitioned into writing full time and you have the ability to make your 9-5 your craft. Whoever you are, whoever you know, if they love writing Baytoday.ca wants to hear from them through Second Saturday Stories.
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Second Saturday stories: Below Freezing: the harrowing story of a winter griller.

Second Saturday stories: Below Freezing: the harrowing story of a winter griller.

For the next fifteen minutes, Mike waged guerrilla warfare on the meat. Opening the lid quickly to assess, then flashing his spatula to move the burgers to the familiar hot spots.
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Your friendly neighbourhood columnist returns in the next Second Saturday Story

Your friendly neighbourhood columnist returns in the next Second Saturday Story

Enter 'Below Freezing,' an homage to those of us who keep the barbecue on the patio 365 days of the year. The story conjures images familiar to any Northerner who's ever clutched a Maglight in the crook of their neck so they can see what they're barbecuing in that familiar 4:00pm blackness known as dusk in winter. 
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Local author brings tale of alien sighting to Second Saturday Stories

Local author brings tale of alien sighting to Second Saturday Stories

The ending will definitely have you casting a suspicious eye to the night sky in wonder if all the lights winking down at the city truly are stars.  
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