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Mark French

Mark French

Mark French has lived in North Bay and area for the last 26 years. He attended Canadore College for Social Service Work and Nipissing University for a Bachelor of Arts in English. He has written about five short stories in the last few years as he continues to enter writing contests and aspires to be published. He has a passion for both reading and writing and tries to do so every day. In his free time he enjoys snorkeling, metal detecting and exploring the outdoors with his family.

Recent Work by Mark

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Final Chapter: Revelations

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Final Chapter: Revelations

The sound of the boy's scream mingled with his own as he rose higher, his legs cramping from the tension. In the darkness behind him Ester’s necklace glowed, the light from it casting a sickly orange light across the floor. Clark opened his mouth, but his voice was lost in the spewing demonic rant that filled the empty darkness. 
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Horror fiction concludes today in Second Saturday Stories

Horror fiction concludes today in Second Saturday Stories

They act fast to stop an ultimate evil, but even with the help will their efforts be too late? Will they lose one of their own? 
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Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 10: The Doll

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 10: The Doll

It feels like a lifetime slips by but Merfey finally opens his eyes. His flashlight sits across his lap illuminating the room he is in and for one sickening second he thinks there’s a massive black spider facing him. Merfey startles with a whimper and shines the light on it hoping it will skitter away, but instead sees it’s not a spider at all.
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Be the first to preview today's chilling horror fiction

Be the first to preview today's chilling horror fiction

In his attempt to defeat one monster, Merfey has infuriated an ultimate evil, one that could leave Merfey and his friends trapped forever.
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Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 9: The Confession

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 9: The Confession

The unsupported floor above her strained and groaned. In the darkness she tried to get her feet underneath her but they continued to slip on the loose stones. In her frantic state she felt like skeletal hands were yanking her towards the gaping void that just swallowed Clark.
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The futility of rage and the power of sorrow: Second Saturday Stories

The futility of rage and the power of sorrow: Second Saturday Stories

Set in the Atomic Age with ties to the sinking of the Titanic 40 years prior, The Wraith highlights the battle between technology and nature, and the futility of one attempting to conquer the other.
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Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 8: Atrox Mal

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 8: Atrox Mal

She looked it up years later, when she wasn’t convinced she had dreamed the whole thing. She found a latin textbook in the library and didn’t dare bring it home. She flipped to the glossary and ran her finger down the great weathered pages until she found it: Evil. Cruel Evil. 
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When your nightmare makes a house call. Today in Second Saturday Stories

When your nightmare makes a house call. Today in Second Saturday Stories

One night Esther shouts into the void and this time she gets an answer. But will she find answers that finally put her questions to rest, or has she instead invited something malicious into her safe space?
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Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 7: The Spirit Board

Second Saturday Stories Presents The Wraith Chapter 7: The Spirit Board

Love was an unwelcome warmth in her world, a vulgar display of what she could no longer endure. A concept she could no longer fathom.  But the rage,  oh, she could do much with the rage. 
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Who's moving the ouija board? find out in Second Saturday Stories

Who's moving the ouija board? find out in Second Saturday Stories

The teens make contact with something using a spirit board, but is it The Butcher? or has something more sinister started playing with them? 
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