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A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story.<\/b><\/p>\nA young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story.<\/b><\/p>\n
Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He\u2019s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He\u2019s also\u2014and this is the most interesting thing\u2014not dead. Martin has improbably survived not one but two deadly disasters that claimed dozens of lives. The kid is riding one hell of a lucky streak. Two federal agents think there is something darker at play. Now that they\u2019ve arranged to interview Martin, they want answers. Martin is ready to share everything he knows. One thing is for certain: when it comes to escaping death, luck doesn\u2019t figure into it at all.<\/p>\n
First publication:<\/strong> Amazon Original Stories, EBook The books, magazines and\/or collections in which these titles are also published: The book\/story is published with these cover(s): 9780063441477 Information about edition(s): The story starts as follows: Other information: Nomination(s):<\/strong> Movie: A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story. Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He\u2019s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He\u2019s also\u2014and this is the most interesting thing\u2014not dead. Martin has improbably survived not one but two deadly disasters that claimed dozens of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5455,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5454","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5454\/revisions\/5636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate:<\/strong> 2024
\nAuthor(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Hill
\nNomination(s):<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nMovie:<\/strong>\u00a0No<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>\u2022 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025<\/p>\n
\n(Click image to see full cover)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 9781662527944
\nEbook
\nAmazon
\n2024<\/td>\n\n
\nPaperback
\nMariner Books
\n2025<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2022 The story was originally planned to appear in New Demons a <\/span>Joe R. Lansdale, Patrick McDonough, Keith Lansdale collaboration on Kickstarter, but the anthology ended up being canceled.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>First Interview
\n“This is Special Agent John Oates,” Duvall said to the kid. “And I’m Special Agent _”
\n“Let me guess, Special Agent Daryl Hall,” the kid cut in. “Do you take requests? I’ve always had a wicked soft spot for ‘You Make My Dreams Come True.”
\nDuvall shook his head. “That’s funny. I’ve never heard that one before.”
\n“Really?”
\n“No. That was my trademark deadpan sarcasm,” Duvall told him. “I’m Special Agent Anthony Duvall. Martin, I_”
\n“Duvall and Oates!” The kid cried and drummed his palms on the edge of the table.
\n“C’mon,\u00a0that’s\u00a0<\/em>funny. It’s\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em>close.”<\/p>\n
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