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    Mike's Pond
    Mike's Pond
    Mike's Pond
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    Mike's Pond

    By Andrew J. Peters

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    I grew up in the 1980s in the idyllic suburban town of Amherst, New York, adjacent to the city of Buffalo. It was Middle America. The main cultural phenomena were Little League games and block parties.

    But we had legends.

    There were horrors that lurked in undeveloped plots of wooded land. There were stories born from the looming scare of chemical plants in nearby Niagara Falls, where a residential development called Love Canal made national news.

    "Mike's Pond" is a very short ficitonalized memoir about a boy who goes out one night to explore one of those urban legends and discovers the real-life demons lurking close to home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew J. Peters
    Release dateApr 27, 2014
    ISBN9781310149184
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      Mike's Pond - Andrew J. Peters

      Mike’s Pond

      Copyright 2014 Andrew J. Peters

      Published by Andrew J. Peters at Smashwords

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      Even ordinary places have legends.

      I grew up in Amherst, New York, an idyllic suburban town adjacent to the city of Buffalo. In the 1980s, it was a place with tree-lined streets and handsome homes with landscaped yards. The local culture was Little League games and block parties.

      But we had legends. This story is inspired by

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