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    Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story: Bryant Street
    Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story: Bryant Street
    Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story: Bryant Street
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    Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story: Bryant Street

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    If The Twilight Zone exited in a subdivision…

    Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected.

    I created Bryant Street a long time ago when Stephen King said writers should write about what scares them. Subdivisions terrify me at a deep level, so I created Bryant Street.

    I lived this story far too many times in subdivisions. Luckily escaped with my life each time, but only barely.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2021
    ISBN9781393646785
    Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story: Bryant Street
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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      Wrong Turn - Dean Wesley Smith

      Wrong Turn

      Wrong Turn

      A Bryant Street Story

      Dean Wesley Smith

      WMG Publishing, Inc.

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      Wrong Turn

      A Bryant Street Story

      Patrick Cutler was lost.

      That simple. He was lost in his own subdivision.

      He eased his rented Ford coupe over to the edge of the curb and stopped. He kicked up the air-conditioning a touch to fight off not only the heat of the late-July day outside of Las Vegas, but also his sweating from worry.

      How could he be lost? He had bought the house on Bryant Street six months ago, spent a month in it in February, then had gone north to his home in Portland.

      But he had a three-day business conference down here

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