Makitia Thompson
What Removes Us
Something is quietly removing people from this town.
Brackenridge is the kind of place people pass through without noticing.
Quiet street.
Old woods at the edge of town.
Nothing that should make it memorable.
But people have always gone missing there.
No bodies.
No witnesses.
No explanations.
When Jesse Calder arrives in Brackenridge, he begins noticing something no one else seems able to see, subtle distortions in the air surrounding certain people. Moments later, those people disappear. At first Jesse believes it’s coincidence. Then the pattern begins to emerge.
Children vanish before growing up.
Teenagers before becoming adults.
Lives interrupted at precise moments in time.…