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    Gateway Drug
    Gateway Drug
    Gateway Drug
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    Gateway Drug

    By Lindsey Goddard

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    Danny Thornton is a loner and a high school reject with more than a few bones to pick. When an eerie old man corners him in an alley and forces him to try a new drug, it opens up a gateway for revenge that leaves Danny craving more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsey Goddard
    Release dateJul 3, 2014
    Gateway Drug
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    Lindsey Goddard

    Lindsey's fiction has been sprinkling the horror genre since her first small-press publication at the age of fifteen. She resides in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO with her husband, three children and a daft feline companion. For more information, visit: www.LindseyBethGoddard.com

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    • 4/5
      Now that was a cool short story.

      There isn’t much to say about it without introducing spoilers or regurgitating the blurb, but the drug the kid gets offered isn’t any drug you’ve ever heard of before.

      By the end, you realise the title is an amusing little pun. The story itself is weirdly funny, but also offers some interesting food for thought.

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    Gateway Drug - Lindsey Goddard

    Gateway Drug

    By Lindsey Beth Goddard

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2014 Lindsey Beth Goddard

    Previously published in the anthology Nightmare Stalkers & Dream Walkers

    This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork herein is prohibited.

    Danny Thornton hated everybody in his high school. One more year until I can drop out, he reminded himself before pushing the gymnasium doors open, just wide enough to peek through. The lights were off. The room was empty, aside from the basketball hoops towering above him at each end. Sunlight poured through the high-set windows, shedding its beams across the tiled floor. Danny slipped through the doors and pulled them shut.

    There was no P.E. during sixth hour on Friday, and Danny knew it. He also knew there was an exit door behind the coach's office. It was an emergency exit off the short hallway leading to the sports equipment closet. The door had an automatic lock, making it impossible to get in from the outside, but from the inside it opened with ease.

    Danny crept through the shadows between the patches of sunlight, the roots of his unkempt hair damp with sweat. His heartbeat thudded in his ears as he glanced back at the gymnasium doors to make sure he was still alone. He was. He wiped the sheen of perspiration from

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