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The When They Return series is a mini-series that follows the undead lives of people who’ve died brutal deaths. They return, some for revenge and some to right past wrongs. However, they never return the same. And no matter how good and just their intentions may be, they always give in to the darkness. The dead is supposed to remain dead. But when they rise, chaos follows. The stories are not connected by characters and can be read in any order.

Dawn Montgomery is not your average eleven year old.

Actually, Dawn is not your average person, period. No matter how many psychiatrists she sees, none of them can explain to her parents why she never feels hot, happy, excited or even hungry. However, there is one emotion Dawn does feel…fear.

Every time she looks into the mirror, she feels an overwhelming amount of fear at what’s staring back at her. Her doctors tell her what she’s seeing isn’t real. They say it’s a figment of her overactive imagination. If that’s true, why is this so-called mirage able to touch her, to harm her?

And why does it want her to kill… everyone?

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“Dawn, dinner is ready,” her mother called again. “Come eat.”

She stood up and before she could turn around, her bedroom door began to creak open. She chanted her ‘it’s not real’ mantra, over and over again as she slowly turned around. Her bedroom door was wide open. But no one was there.

Moving slowly, she crept over to the door, glancing from left to right, fearing at any moment, the bloody mirage would jump out and grab her. She made it out into the hallway with no problems. In the hall the temperature was normal. She stared over her shoulder into her bedroom. Why was it so cold in there yet regular out here? She strode over to the stairs. Below, her mother and father were talking about his travels.

They sounded happy. They would begin singing a different tune once she arrived, especially if she told them what she was seeing and feeling. Dawn gripped the handrail and before she could take one step down the stairs, she felt a cold hand on her shoulder.

She spun around and stared into a pair of blood shot eyes.

M’Renee Allen is a pen name for Monica Garry-Allen. She also writes under the name Siren Allen. M’Renee is a Travel Medical Laboratory Technician by day and an author of many genres by night. As M’Renee she writes horror and urban fiction. If you’re interested in connecting with M’Renee, please follow her online.

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