BLACK CROSS

 

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Black Cross (Chapter One)

Extract from The Fortford Times, September 31 st 1978 “ Serial Animal Killer” Strikes Again Deaths of up to 30 cats found decapitated in Blackcross...
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Black Cross (Chapter Two)

Glasgow, 21 st November, 1987 The train sputtered through the underground like a runaway shopping trolley, making Jennifer Darling’s teeth rattle...
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Black Cross (Chapter Three)

Jennifer limped towards the platform, clothes rumpled and torn. Eyes itchy. Cheeks hot and glistening. There was a screaming pain at the back of her...
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Black Cross (Chapter Four)

Ebony didn’t know how long she’d been singing for. She’d started with Hushaby Mountain and had just finished with a song she knew only as Jacob’s...
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Black Cross (Chapter Five)

Ebony stalked through frost-crusted grassland. Each step biting into the earth with a crunch. Bare footed, she was dressed only in the bloodstained T...
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Black Cross (Chapter Six)

Jennifer picked up the receiver and put twenty pence into the telephone box. Her fingers were icicles and it was painful dragging the cold air into...
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Black Cross (Chapter Seven)

Thomas Wade lit another Carlton and inhaled deeply, savouring the rush of nicotine flooding his brain. The ashtray before him was stuffed with...
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Black Cross (Chapter Eight)

Ebony dropped the bin liner next to Jennifer’s rucksack and took six steps back, waiting for acknowledgement. The girl was slow to react. Ebony...