Thirteen Nails: Episode 3 now up

The next installment of Thirteen Nails is now up.

Episode Three: That’s Magic for You

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Summary: A scary doll and a haunted toy museum. Nick can’t seem to get a break. And as usual, nothing is as it seems.

Excerpt

Nick woke up in the museum in a plastic bucket surrounded by rubber insects and lizards. At least that’s what it felt like – waking up. And unlike the last time he’d gone inside a toy, this didn’t feel like a dream. It felt so real, in fact, that Nick began to panic, feeling a heart pound that wasn’t there. He felt himself start to drift upwards and panicked a second time, forcing himself back down into the rubber snake.

Calm the hell down! Nick snarled at himself. He closed his eyes, only for his eyelids to shoot back open on the realization that he had working eyelids. Nick lifted his head, marveling and fretting over the fact that for being a solid rubber snake his body moved with incredible fluidity. Then he looked down at himself and gaped.

Nick wasn’t rubber. Rubber scales didn’t glitter like he was currently glittering, and they certainly didn’t have the kind of realistic detail he was looking at.

Nick closed his working jaw. He wasn’t a rubber snake at all.

He was a real snake.