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Nov 2024
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The Boarded Window - Unpleasant Dreams 6...

Cassandra Harold with Jim Harold Media
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Halloween has passed but the spooky stories continue on here on Unpleasant Dreams. Cassandra Harold reads the short story, The Boarded Window, by Ambrose Bierce on this week’s episode. It was written in 1891, and is in the Public Domain. Enjoy! — Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers’ intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in t ... Show More
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