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    Apartment 239
    Apartment 239
    elfordalley
    • Reads
      Reads 417,213
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    • Parts
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    • Time
      Time 4h 20m
      4 hours, 20 minutes4h 20m
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    • Reads
      Reads 417,213
      417,213417K
    • Votes
      Votes 18,224
      18,22418.2K
    • Parts
      Parts 46
      4646
    • Time
      Time 4h 20m
      4 hours, 20 minutes4h 20m
    elfordalley
    Complete
    Complete, First published Dec 08, 2016
    Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead.
         
                                                                              ***** 
         
        When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him.
        
        [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]
    All Rights Reserved
    • american
    • comedy
    • contemporary
    • dark
    • death
    • demon
    • fear
    • friendship
    • ghost
    • haunted
    • hauntedfamily
    • hauntedhouse
    • horror
    • horrorcomedy
    • humor
    • humorous
    • newadult
    • occult
    • paidstories
    • paranormal
    • roommates
    • serialkiller
    • spooky
    • supernatural
    • urbanfantasy
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    Table of contents
    • Prologue: Father and Son
      Fri, Dec 9, 2016
    • Chapter One
      Sat, Dec 10, 2016
    • Chapter Two
      Sat, Dec 10, 2016
    • Chapter Three
      Sat, Dec 10, 2016
    • Michael's Interlude
      Sat, Dec 10, 2016
    • Chapter Four
      Sun, Dec 11, 2016
    • Chapter Five
      Sun, Dec 11, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Six
      Mon, Dec 12, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Seven
      Tue, Dec 13, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Eight
      Wed, Dec 14, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Nine
      Thu, Dec 15, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Ten
      Fri, Dec 16, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Eleven
      Fri, Dec 16, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twelve
      Fri, Dec 16, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Thirteen
      Fri, Dec 16, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Fourteen
      Sat, Dec 17, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Fifteen
      Sat, Dec 17, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Sixteen
      Sun, Dec 18, 2016Locked
    • Kaitlin's Interlude
      Sun, Dec 18, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Seventeen
      Mon, Dec 19, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Eighteen
      Tue, Dec 20, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Nineteen
      Wed, Dec 21, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty
      Thu, Dec 22, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-One
      Fri, Dec 23, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Two
      Fri, Dec 23, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Three
      Sat, Dec 24, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Four
      Sun, Dec 25, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Five
      Mon, Dec 26, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Six
      Tue, Dec 27, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Seven
      Wed, Dec 28, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Eight
      Thu, Dec 29, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Twenty-Nine
      Fri, Dec 30, 2016Locked
    • Diane's Interlude
      Fri, Dec 30, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Thirty
      Wed, Apr 12, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-One
      Sat, Dec 31, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Two
      Sat, Dec 31, 2016Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Three
      Sat, Dec 31, 2016Locked
    • June's Interlude
      Sun, Jan 1, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Four
      Sun, Jan 1, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Five
      Mon, Jan 2, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Six
      Tue, Jan 3, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Seven
      Wed, Jan 4, 2017Locked
    • Abe's Interlude
      Thu, Jan 5, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Eight
      Thu, Jan 5, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Nine
      Fri, Jan 6, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Forty
      Sat, Jan 7, 2017Locked

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    Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead.
         
                                                                              ***** 
         
        When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him.
        
        [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

    46 parts

    • Chapter Thirty-Eight
      Thu, Jan 5, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Thirty-Nine
      Fri, Jan 6, 2017Locked
    • Chapter Forty
      Sat, Jan 7, 2017Locked
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