I'd like to give a huge thank you to everybody who stepped up to donate to our overcoming the Darkness campaign last month.

Because of your generosity, we were able to raise 5,585 this year to help people who struggle with depression.

And we'll be dividing this equally four ways.

So $1,394.25 will go to each of our four beneficiaries, the Suicide and Crisis Life Line, the Crisis

Text Line, Save.org, and the International Foundation for Research and Education of Depression, or I-Fred.

If you'd like to learn more about these organizations that'll be receiving your generous

donation, you can find them all on the Hope in the Darkness page at weird darkness.com

slash hope. That's weird darkness dot com slash hope and once again thank you for

making our campaign not only successful, but a true pleasure to be a part of.

I couldn't be prouder of our weirdo family.

Central Massachusetts is a land of oddities and apparitions.

Stories of the strange and paranormal have been passed down from generation to generation,

and only the local populace has any idea of just how vast and deep their superstitions run.

The world around you is much more than you can touch, taste, smell, see, and hear.

Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, but all of them give you a

taste of what it's like to be from the honest part of the United States. You can't

have a region of the country that has been settled for centuries

without getting a few odd tales out of it. Open up a whole new world of fact and fiction

that'll leave you with a deep appreciation for the strange and

bizarre ghosts and heroes await and the only thing they need to live on is you

slightly odd Fitchburg by Ed Sweeney.

Now available on Kindle, paperback, and audiobook versions

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