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Korinna’s world is ripped apart

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Enter the Peerless Nature_Gift_Guide WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARDElpenor, a newly minted private investigator, finds his first case on Craigslist: twenty nine people have entered an abandoned trailer in rural Indiana, and none of them have left. Unable to open the trailer's doors or windows, Elpenor enlists two local accomplices, a knife grinder (Don the Knife) and a janitor (Hugh Gardener). When they finally gain access, they fall into a pocket universe ruled by a godlike being called Fiascoal. Refugees of this