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description: Shallow Waterswhere nothing stays buried.With twenty-two dark tales diving beneath the surface of loss love and life.Shallow Waters is the official monthly flash fiction challenge hosted by the award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing. Every month a new challenge is posted online with authors submitting via email. The best submissions are then posted on Crystal Lakes Patreon page where patrons read daily entries and vote for the winner. What youll find in these Shallow Waters anthologies include the most popular of our finalists.Stay tuned for more volumes in this series or find Crystal Lake Publishing on Patreon to enter or vote on future challenges.Volume one includes horror thrillers suspense and stories of love lost death 2nd chances the monsters within and the beauty beneath it all.Introduction by Joe MynhardtClosure on a Bed of Nails by Chad LutzkeFast Car by Tracy FaheyTears of Buddy by Patrick R. McDonoughPuzzle Pieces by Armand RosamiliaPretty Like Butterflies by Tim WaggonerS1:E7 by Robert FordPain is Your Teacher by Michael Harris CohenMemory Lane by Red LagoeThe Silence of the Sirens by Loren RhoadsIts Me Not You by Jonathan WinnSisters of Loss by Mark Allan GunnellsTalisman by Jezzy WolfeThe Melting of Your Gods by Mercedes M. YardleyCharms by Dino ParentiNot Your Average Monster by Kenneth W. CainWhere the Children Run in Darkness by Guy MedleyTunnels by Tom Over (winner)The Truth about Dani by Joe MercerBaby Savannah by M.J. SydneyRats Scratched in the Linen Cupboard by Dani BrownRaining by John BodenThe Death Experience by L.A. Story In this volume Taunted by a cactus a man copes with grief after the loss of his wife. Alondra DeCourval visits Franz Kafkas grave to think about death. A lovestruck woman strives to connect with a man shes convinced is The One. The perfect funeral for a childall according to a Mothers well-crafted plan. The exception is one small unexpected development no one could have ever prepared for. A short meditation on the haunting nature of love and loss and the aftermath of both. Victors sanity has been threaded together by the memory of his daughters voice until now when her laughter falls silent. An adrenaline junkie believes he can take on the ultimate challengecoming back from the dead. Sisters share everything. The good...and the bad. Sometimes being a hoarder is dangerous... In our ever-changing world what we view as a monster is constantly evolvingbut at what cost? Buddy's heart aches for his familys arrival. Bright colors may be beautiful but sometimes they can be dangerous. Sometimes the darkness we harbor within is best left behind closed doors. Rats scratch in the children's ward. 
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title: Shallow Waters, Vol. 1
publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing