<P><B>'Silence be Damned'</B></P><P>Leo peered up at her eyebrows raised. 'Lydia. What's wrong?' She kept screaming over and over. 'You're...you're bleeding.... Lydia felt her hands balling involuntarily into fists and she felt a new round of screaming building inside her. Leo glanced down at his shirt. His eyes grew as large as dinner plates. 'Oh my God....what is that?'</P><P>This never-before-published narrative is a disturbing nightmarish tale of a lady named Lydia and her journey through a busy subway train station when things quickly begin to change. Something menacing awaits down there a monstrous and punishing supernatural force that comes to life but be warned this story is not for the faint of heart.</P><P><B>'The Exchange'</B></P><P>Luke walked up to the girl in the playground and asked 'Why aren't you swinging?' The girl looked at him and said nothing for a minute. He was struck by the darkness of her irises which were almost impossible to distinguish from her blacker-than-black pupils. He swallowed. He was about to turn away when she said 'I was swinging but I don't swing anymore.'</P><P>A ghostly tale of a boy that moves to a new house with her mom and sister his father had recently died. He encounters a small girl in the playground up the street where he lives and then the spine tingling terror begins....</P>