Dexter Morgenstern - The Slender Man

The damage from the crash doesn’t appear to have been what killed the deputy. There was a large wound through the deputy’s chest that ran all the way through his seat that suggests that he was impaled. When Adam Redwood was questioned, he didn’t seem to recall anything that happened after a recent bus accident that claimed the lives of several children.

A search party was sent into the forest to find more information about the crash and to search for Alyssa Redwood. Her guitar was found muddied but intact in a pile of leaves. A small distance away from the guitar, a few members of the search party noted that one of an odd tree’s lower branches had a large amount of blood on it and around that branch was a large copper Star of David necklace that the Redwood family confirmed had been in the possession of Alyssa Redwood the last time she’d been seen…

DNA analysis of the blood sample taken from the branch revealed that it belonged to Deputy Yew. The bark on the trunk of the tree was severely gouged, and had paint marks that matched the paint of Deputy Yew’s patrol car, and microscopic bits of glass taken from the tree branch matched the glass from the windshield. The diameter and shape of the tree exactly matched the indention in the front of the car, indicating that the tree was what the patrol car had collided with, however the vehicle was found more than two miles from the tree and there were no tire marks in the leaves and mud, damage to trees between the damaged tree and the road, or other evidence that the vehicle had veered into the forest. No other signs of Alyssa Redwood were ever found.

Dexter Morgenstern was born in North Carolina and has been home-schooled most of his life in part due to being diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at an early age, which led to being somewhat socially outcast. Over time, Dexter developed a vivid imagination and love for chemistry and biology. This led him to delve into the world of science fiction and begin writing at the age of fifteen.Dexter combined his imagination with his appreciation for science, and competed in the NaNoWriMo contest in 2011 at the age of 17. He successfully finished the contest and finally drafted his first novel, “Felix Faust” as part of the Arcane Insurrection series.

Visit him at http://dextermorgenstern.com

Anna is a Swedish artist and art teacher who recently moved to Washington State. She has a background within the art and media field from several art schools and universities and received her MA in 2010. Anna’s artwork mainly contains mixed media where graphical drawings and sculpture are the two main elements. She has a great interest in fantasy worlds and gathers her inspiration from the deep forests of nature, old folklore stories and things unexplained.

Copyright © 2012 by Dexter Morgenstern

Artwork Copyright © 2012 Anna Stockbring

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Kindle: October 2012