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Going Dark: Free Fiction for the Eclipse

August 20, 2017 By Eric Douglas

The impending eclipse got me thinking about how man has been affected over the years by eclipses. One reportedly stopped a war. I’m sure ancient man thought they were all going to die when the sky went dark in the middle of the day, too.

So, I decided I would write a short story to commemorate the event. And then asked some writer friends if they wanted to play along, too.

Here is what I have so far. Check back today and tomorrow as more writers send me their links.

Total Eclipse by Bart Hopkins

Ripping by Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher

The Things That Make For Peace by Loren Eaton

Our Sun Got Mooned by Patrick Newman

Eclipse By Connie Kinsey

The Curse By Kimberly Collins

Cliff was his own man

Ironically, I wrote the first draft of my story a week before I read this piece from The Atlantic, but the author seemed to have the same idea I did.

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Real Thugs: A Cult of Murder — Small groups of travelers have disappeared all over the mid-Atlantic without a trace. When bodies turn up with what appear to be ritual markings, FBI Agent AJ West is on the hunt for what might be a serial killer. Or something even more sinister. It’s a race against […]

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