Mar 24, 2023
Strange happenings in one household trigger a police investigation that reveals a deeper mystery.
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction
Excerpt:
A few days later, Reggie
mentioned seeing a “weird-looking dog” in the backyard when he came
home from school. He looked it up and realized that what he’d seen
was a fox. But if there had indeed been a fox in the yard, it had
run off by the time Reena went to look. She’d never heard of any
fox sightings in the town proper. But aside from a few jokes at
dinner about wildlife passing through their backyard, the Songs had
no further concern.
Then, items began to appear. An old-fashioned lantern lying outside in the yard. A rake that no one remembered buying. And one morning, Reena came downstairs to find a stack of plates in the kitchen that didn’t belong to the family.
What’s the Word (that inspired the
story)?
Intertemporal: Describing any relationship
between past, present, and future events or conditions. (source:
Wiktionary)
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CREDITS
Story: “The
Mystery on Marigold Drive” Copyright © 2019 by Nila L.
Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Trip-Hop
Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital
Emotions (Intro/Outro)
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)*
“Silent walk”
“Monochromatic stain”
“Cold case”
“Virtual reality”
“Prisma”
“Profiler”
“Investigation day”
“In search for (seamless)”
“Unclassified”
“Do or die”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from
GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
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more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A street map with a few labeled elements and denser detail in the middle, which shows a grid of streets. At top center is a green area labeled “Exeter Park.” At bottom center is another green area, unlabeled. One of the streets curves down into a body of water labeled “Dragonfly Lake.” Just outside the grid, in each other cardinal direction is a circle. The circles are labeled “Circle North,” “Circle East,” Circle West,” and “Circle South,” according to their position. Radiating out from the center of the map is a web of cracks or tears. One of these cracks terminates at upper right on a house symbol on a side street labeled “Marigold.” Other parallel streets nearby are labeled “Olive” and “Park.” The original image is a horizontal rectangle. Borders are added to the top and bottom showing faded portions of the map to make the final image square.