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A short horror story by the multi-award-winning author of Arcadia Falls, The Stage 3 Series, and Gaia’s Game.

The Branchards are a perfectly ordinary family living a perfectly ordinary rural life.
Things aren’t always easy, but they get by.

Young Andy Branchard wishes his older brother and sister wouldn’t pick on him so much, but he does his best to ignore them. He has his forest friends, and he has his creek where he can watch the fish swim up and down all day, so he’s happy enough.

Really, the only part about growing up in the Branchard house he hates are Friday nights, when the family dinner is over and his mother asks the same horrifying question she asks every week.

The question that puts a name to his greatest fear, and to the Branchard family’s deep, dark secret.

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• Mary Schmidt5.0 out of 5 stars Scary Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2025 Verified Purchase
• This was a short story filled with more and deeper sadness and anguish that y ou can imagine. Not all families are normal, whatever a normal family is, and this one is utterly terrifying.