Dead Oaks Podcast

A Dead Oaks Visitor By S.H. Mansouri “I wake up in the middle of the night.  The first thing I see is headlights sprayed against the wall. They shoot across the room, you know, like when a car passes by . . . or when someone pulls into the driveway. I’m not expecting company at this hour, I can tell you that for sure.”             “And how do you feel?” asks the woman sitting in a dark brown leather chair. She scribbles across the legal pad resting on her lap. She waits for a reply.             Marvin shuffles on the couch, burrowing deeper into a corner. He squeezes a throw pillow, pulling it up close to his bottom lip, preparing for a scene of horror. His eyes burn a hole into a throw-rug on the floor.             “I feel . . . like I’m on top of a really big roller coaster, one of those towering new rides that starts out by slowly inching upward. The clicking sound locks me into the next foot or two I’ve climbed.”  He looks up to the ceiling, eyes wide, clenching

Otto Gillespie journeyed to Dead Oaks in search of his missing partner in journalism, Lenore Fischer, but strange things started happening the moment he entered the town. Now, he wakes up after his last update with no memory of the past five months. Listen to the next episode in Otto's story, "Five Months Later" now: For more information about submitting your own Dead Oaks story, click  here .