Patrick W Marsh

The Eye in the Lace Patrick W Marsh

From the World of the Greenland Diaries. Before the Drum, a terrifying form keeps appearing outside a forest, prompting a therapist to uncover its meaning. A champion from war is staying at a hotel when a particular challenger arrives to test her. A widower questions his reality when his dead wife's garden grows back to life. A sheriff's deputy in Minnesota retraces the steps of a long-missing neighbor. A strange child arrives in gym class with bizarre wounds and even stranger smell. During the Drum, two security guards try walking home along a haunted freeway. A monster takes pity when a trap clicks empty during battle. A cheat code from an old video game saves a child's life. A little girl tries to reconnect to her past in the haze of monstrous illusions. Many years after the Drum, a young woman hates her fiendish heritage and tries to cut it out. An art student is introduced to an antique medium, which captured the still living horror of history. A curious teenager tries to communicate with the darkness that gouged humanity. A field guide gets ready for an expedition into the most dangerous place on earth. A conversation at a bar reflects the lack of answers from humanities near demise. A sharp shooter must make a choice between one monster and many.