A tarot reader aids a mysterious man who believes she is the only one who can help him return to his true home in the eerie Manaan caverns where they must fight the natural and supernatural to stay alive.
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Maxine Shepard is a tarot reader who h...
This story was written as an entry for the Open Novella Contest where the participants use one of 65 prompts to write a novella of at least 20,000 words in a 12-week period. This was my contribution.
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Dark Visions
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Maxine is a tarot reader who keeps drawing the same card over and over again. Psychic visions of a mysterious man with the exact card tattooed on his body manifests with every reveal of the card. Her visions become darker and more terrifying once the man comes to her for a reading.
While claiming he mysteriously entered into her world through unknown means, he believes she's the only one who can help him return to his sunless home.
His memories and her visions eventually leads her to the entrance of a remote cave and right down the warped and twisted rabbit hole.
