Dead Oaks: "A Knock at the Door" & "Skookum Lake"

Dead Oaks Listeners! Now all Dead Oaks episodes are going to be available on deadoakspodcast.com so you don't have to jump back and forth from our website to SoundCloud! Yay! Exciting!

Make sure you check out episodes 1 and 2, "A Knock at the Door" and "Skookum Lake" if you haven't already.

A KNOCK AT THE DOOR:
Dead Oaks' first episode follows journalist Otto Gillespie as he travels to a strange town called Dead Oaks to find his missing partner, Lenore. Once in Dead Oaks, it doesn't take long for Otto to figure out the town is not what it seems.

Every other episode of Dead Oaks will follow Otto's story as he tries to figure out what happened to Lenore and why it may not be a coincidence he ended up in Dead Oaks in the first place.

SKOOKUM LAKE:
Dead Oaks' first short story installment, written by author Tom Deady, details the events that changed the lives of several Dead Oaks citizens in the summer of 1965 after a day at the local watering hole goes awry, leaving an entire town to wonder what happened and what's living in Skookum Lake...

Every other episode of Dead Oaks will feature a new short story written by different authors from around the globe.

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A woman abandoned in a deadly forest is forced to fight for her survival... Penny does not care about other people. They are necessary only in as far as they are useful, and most are not useful at all. Getting pregnant, the unplanned side-effect of her affair with a married man, was useful. Having a child meant that she could live in relative peace, safe from the dangers outside a house shared by hundreds. A house that includes the man ’s wife, Mary , a woman who watches Penny from the shadows. When Penny wakes on a makeshift boat careening down a river, head throbbing, she knows Mary is responsible . Left to the deadly forest that surrounds their home, Penny is forced to navigate her way back to her child, and to Mary, hell-bent on revenge. But Penny is not alone in the forest. Between the thick trees, inky eyes follow her as s he moves. Their smiles growing. Penny is being hunted, and the only thing that keeps her going is the fiery hatred ...

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