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    Things We Saw At Midnight
    Things We Saw At Midnight
    Things We Saw At Midnight
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    Things We Saw At Midnight

    By Oliver Urban

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    We know you’re not normal. None of us are, either.
    Welcome to Midnight City. It’s about to get weird . . .

    In Midnight City some things are just accepted. Like the way Old Lady Ellen can tell you the date of your death (because the shadows who sit on her porch with her all day have whispered it to her) or the way the man with a swarm of bees where his face should be always sits in the same booth at Winston’s Pie House. The gas station attendant is a leftover god from another dimension, and one of the local journalists is the living echo of a storm that ravaged the city over fifty years ago—but that’s all just par for the course here.

    For some of the more ordinary citizens of the desert metropolis—like twin sisters Clover and Poppy Pike—every new incident of the unexplained is a story waiting to be told or a dare waiting to be taken. But in the dark heart of this city set in the wastelands, fear lives like a sentient creature, infusing every interaction, every daydream and glance, with its poisonous touch.

    In this free anthology written as a Halloween gift for his fans, Apollo Blake delves into the depths of horror and mystery in a collection of thirteen short stories and vignettes infused with passion, grief, and an unshakable sense of dread—including A Fine Day for Dying, Eat Us Alive, and Kiss the Sun.

    Get your free copy now, and enter Midnight City—if you’re brave enough, that is. . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOliver Urban
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
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      Book preview

      Things We Saw At Midnight - Oliver Urban

      THINGS

      WE SAW AT

      MIDNIGHT

      by Apollo Blake

      ~

      For more from Apollo Blake, including info about new books, go to:

      http://chaotic-array.blogspot.ca/

      Copyright 2015 by Apollo Blake. All rights reserved.

      Summary: in Midnight City, a small town with sinister citizens, a group of teens attempt to find love, luck, friendship, and success amid a menagerie of magical beings and monstrous creatures, throughout an anthology of exciting new short stories.

      ~

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the author. To request permissions, or receive info about review copies and arcs, write to the author at ApolloBlake@mail.com

      ALSO BY APOLLO BLAKE

      ~

      The Lilac Jones Adventures

      Night of the Dragon

      Rise of the Underlings

      Curse of the Sword

      How I Broke Us

      A Darkness So Divine

      The Diamond Society (Jan 2016)

      The Winter War (Jan 2016)

      The Chain of Thorns (Feb 2016)

      Other Titles

      Souls of Salt & Seawater (Dec 2015)

      Shadows (2016)

      Writing As Oliver Urban

      The Face of Love

      For Josie,

      For scary stories late at night and eggs the next morning. For teaching me to play video games. For keeping my tattoo a secret from my parents until the end of the vacation. For always acknowledging - and encouraging - my oddness.

      &

      For Mom,

      For Greek Gods and expensive notebooks. For comfort and comfort food. For being my champion and my mentor. For too-long shopping trips and tacos on every birthday. For teaching me to take a hit and get up again.

      ~

      These are the only reasons I am here today.

      Thank you for each and every one of them.

      CONTENTS

      ~

      ALSO BY APOLLO BLAKE

      DEDICATION

      CONTENTS

      INTRO

      WELCOME TO MIDNIGHT CITY

      THE GOLDEN ECHO

      A FINE DAY FOR DYING

      JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY MONDAY

      CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

      THE GIRL

      I AM THE ROT

      FOOLS

      FORGET TODAY

      EAT US ALIVE

      NOSTALGIA

      LOST

      KISS THE SUN

      INNER ANIMAL

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Intro

      ~

      Thank you. Yes, you.

      Whoever you are, wherever you are. Whether you follow me on Tumblr or Twitter, or found me through my blog or a stupid comment I made on Youtube. If you stumbled across these stories on some ebook sharing site or found them in the Amazon store and decided to strike out and support a new author. How you found my stories doesn’t really matter to me. The fact that you read them at all is so much more special.

      It is truly rare as an author to be able to chase yourself off in odd directions and write around in circles like this something special starts to form. More often, we find ourselves stuck working on stories we’ve already planned or announced or signed contracts for. I’m incredibly grateful every day for the fact that I’ve been lucky enough as a writer to be able to choose which stories I get to tell, when I put them out, how, and with which companies . . . as little as ten years ago, this was not possible for writers to do. And it wouldn’t be possible still if it weren’t for the readers like you who breathe new life into these stories we create. I don’t take that for granted.

      When I sat down to write Things We Saw At Midnight my goal was to bring to life a world on the page that would work as a thank you to my readers. A place that would serve

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