introducing: the cul de sac

Ghosts In The Burbs

Liz Sower

Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Over the next two months (give or take) I’d like to do something different. The Cul de Sac is a novel I’ve been working on for the last six or so years and I’ve come to realize that there is no better place to share it than right here, where we all adore strange little towns, quirky neighbors and demonic infestation. So let’s head to Woodland Hills, a fictional town just a hop skip and a jump from Wellesley. After suffering a harrowing break in, Mae is desperate to leave her apartment in the city. Her husband, Tom, is dead set on a fixer-upper in a snobby little New England town just outside of Boston. The neighbors are fabulously quirky, the house has potential, and Mae is too traumatized to pay attention to the red flags lining their path to the cul de sac. Told several chapters at a time, the story begins right here May 13th.

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0:00.0	Over the next two months, give or take, I'd like to do something different.
0:11.4	The cul-de-sack is a novel I've been working on for the last six years or so, and I've come to
0:15.5	realize that there is no better place to share it than right here. And the fact is, I couldn't
0:20.1	get this fucking thing traditionally published, but I'm desperate to share it. So what better place to share it than right here. And the fact is I couldn't get this fucking thing
0:21.1	traditionally published, but I'm desperate to share it. So what better place to bring it than
0:25.2	right here, where we all adore strange little towns, quirky neighbors, and demonic infestation.
0:32.3	So let's head to Woodland Hills, a fictional town, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Wellesley.
0:38.7	After suffering a harrowing break-in, May is desperate to leave her apartment in the city.
0:43.0	Her husband, Tom, is dead set on a fixer-upper in a snobby little New England town just
0:47.5	outside of Boston.
0:49.0	The neighbors are fabulously quirky, the house has potential, and May is too traumatized
0:53.7	to pay attention to the red flags lining their path to the cul-de-sac.
0:57.0	Told several chapters at a time, the story begins right here on May 13th.
1:04.0	As with all Ghost in the Verbs stories, you may also find it over on Patreon without the intro and outro chatter.
1:24.3	Members at the $4 level and above will have access to ad-free episodes, as well as my Patreon-exclusive podcast, Dead Time, where I discuss all things ghost hunting reality TV with Kristen Anderson from Guide to the Unknown podcast.
1:30.0	And once I've managed to record the cul-de-sac in its entirety, I'll release and sell the completed audio file over on Patreon exclusively.
1:34.1	So, that's the plan.
1:36.2	We all know how my plans usually turn out, but it's with the very best intentions that we
1:40.1	begin this journey.
1:41.7	In all honesty, I'm terrified that this is the shittiest thing I've ever
1:45.1	written, but I feel like that before I put anything out. My sincerest hope is that this,
1:50.6	like every story I share, reaches the people who enjoy the same distraction I do. So, pack your
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