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The Lake’s Mouth

ashes and ruins

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They called it Graywater Lake, though no one remembered why. The name fit, though—the water was never blue, never green, never clear. Always gray, like the sky when a storm holds its breath.

Children were told not to swim there, not to fish, not to wander too close after dark. The stories were always the same: the lake never gave back what it took. The way old folks said it, hushed and hard, you ...

Horror

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