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20th Century Scream

A Ghosts of Grand Central Story

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20th Century Scream

By: Guy Veryzer
Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
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About this listen

A young girl in the 1930s traveling across from L.A. to New York on the 20th Century Limited train to Grand Central Station is abandoned by her drunken father, makes friends with a kindly porter, and then the train has a fateful accident.

©2014 Guy Veryzer (P)2015 Guy Veryzer
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Ghosts Horror Scary Haunted Short Story

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