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A Garden of Secrets

©2009 Toni Leland

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Introduction

I’ve always been fascinated by the unknown, the scary stuff, and the forbidden. Cowering under the covers in my dark room, I’d press my ear to the radio, listening to “The Shadow” late at night, then lay awake in the aftermath of each terrifying story. “Twilight Zone” became a later obsession, and I scared myself witless more than once at a horror movie matinee at the local theater. Why? Psychological terror can be more debilitating than actual physical danger, and perhaps we all need the reassurance that the bogeymen are not real, that the reality of our life is safe from all things supernatural.