Short Story Of Sarah Richards

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It wasn’t the whispered voices, or the unsettling dreams that had begun to trouble Sarah Richards so much as the visions… visions of a man more ghostly than real.

In the space of a single day, he appears several times, but is the spectre harmless or are his intentions malevolent.

Confiding in a friend, Sarah endeavours to understand the mystery, to identify her unknown stalker. But with each visitation she becomes ever more bewildered… and as her orderly life begins to unravel, she questions the reality of all that she knows, and with mounting horror, even her own

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