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When his mother passes away, Oliver makes the trek home to sell the old manor he grew up in and faces the ghosts he left behind.
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Karen Stollznow
Bestselling author Karen Stollznow's non-fiction works include Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility; On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present; Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic; God Bless America; Haunting America, and Would You Believe It? Her fiction includes the anthology Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories; the novel Hits & Mrs.; and the short stories Unforeseen Circumstances; Don't Leave Me; Welcome Home; The Dark Road; I Am Me; Room for One More: Lord Dufferin's Tale; The Screaming Skull; The Way We Weren't; Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel); and Oliver & Olivia.A host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk, she has spent many years investigating urban legends and folklore. A Doctor of Linguistics, she has taught at several universities in the United States and Australia. She was formerly a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a researcher at Griffith University. Karen was born in Sydney, Australia, and she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Oliver & Olivia - Karen Stollznow
Oliver & Olivia
(A Short Story)
By Karen Stollznow
Copyright © Karen Stollznow 2022
All Rights Reserved
www.karenstollznow.com
Front cover design: Matthew Baxter
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Also by Karen Stollznow
Missed Conceptions
On The Offensive
Unforeseen Circumstances
Don’t Leave Me
I Am Me
The Dark Road
Welcome Home
Room For One More
Legend of the Screaming Skull
The Way We Weren’t
Leap of Faith
Would You Believe It?
Hits & Mrs.
God Bless America
Haunting America
Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic
Oliver pried open the drapes and stared out across the grounds of the estate.
He gave a heavy sigh. It pained him to sell his family home; eight generations of Lamberts had lived
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