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The night an ice storm knocked out the power, two brothers were home alone at the top of a dead-end hill. Then a light started blinking in the treeline below the house.
In this original horror story, a seventeen-year-old and his eleven-year-old brother ride out a winter storm with a woodstove and a handful of candles, their mother stranded in town and the phone lines down. Their road goes nowhere and nobody drives it after dark. So when a flashlight flickers in the woods, again and again, in a pattern he can't work out, he makes a careful decision: blow out every candle, lock every door, and keep count. Hours later, someone climbs the porch steps.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of a rural winter night, a stranger in the dark, and the choices you make when you're the only one keeping watch. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
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