This week's author: Brandon Faircloth. Otis brings your ears two tales to keep them soundly awake: in the first, what appears to be a cut and dry case of battery turns south when the attackers begin to fare worse than the victim. In the second, a wanderer on the Appalachian Trail hears the story of something strange...something that wants to be friends in the worst way...

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