“Cooper.” She got closer. Four feet away. Three feet. Now I could see her eyes, and read the scary glassiness, the almost hypnotic trance.

    The one I knew. Too well.

    This wasn’t the mom who would save me. This wasn’t the mom who would tuck me into bed at night. This wasn’t the mom who wanted to give me a cookie and a kiss on the cheek.

    This was the mom who wanted to kill me.


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            If Hamlet thought he had issues, he should have talked to Cooper Warner. 
            His mother’s normally sunny American-pie, car-pool driving demeanor has turned into something—
            Homicidal.
            And what’s worse, she has help in her hunt for Cooper: A ravenous monster living at the bottom of the old well in the woods behind their house. She’s determined to deliver her 14-year-old son straight into the creature’s eager clutches. 
            Cooper’s doing his best to avoid becoming the monster’s next meal, but he can’t get the thing’s voice out of his head. It talks to him, taunts him day and night about the terrible destiny Cooper must fulfill. He turns to his girlfriend, Megan, for help, but then, to Cooper’s horror, the creature takes her prisoner.
            Now, it’s up to Cooper to fend off his murderous mother, finish his Hamlet paper, and enter the putrid lair at the bottom of the well to rescue his girlfriend. And when he confronts the creature, this high school freshman must make the toughest decision of his life: kill, or be killed.

            This horrific tale, inspired by Hamlet, puts a modern, terrifying twist on the Shakespearean classic.

THE WELL
by A.J. Whitten
Ready to scare you
September 2009

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