Night of the Crane | By @WendyyWolfe
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  • Time 3h 13m
Complete, First published Oct 02, 2022
Mature
Complete || Grand WinnerNanoWatt2024 || A SciFi Lite Adventure in small town America. 

Blurb:

Lacy just wished she hadn't seen what she did in the distant night sky over the small country town she called home. 

But she had seen it. 

In her mind she relived the events she had witnessed tonight, and yet all explanations fled except for the one that made the most sense to her. 

They were being invaded.


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𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻

Not far from the Gulf Coast the small, very ordinary town of Brew Town, Alabama was established around the only industry that existed there in 1879. The local brewery. 

If you lived in Brew Town your job was bottling beer and then after work, you imbibed what you bottled. 

Macallan Crete has lived here his entire life. But he hasn't let that little fact disrupt his perfect little life. Sarcasm and bar fights rule the day for Macallan and that was a normal reality for him. Until it wasn't. 

Lacy Thibodaux. The sweetheart of Brew Town. Daughter of Deputy Storey Thibodaux. Also a life long resident of Brew Town with a true love/hate relationship for Macallan Crete because she just never needed his kind of drama making her look bad all over town. 

But what would happen when the normalcy of Brew Town was suddenly invaded by strange flying objects, leaving it's quaint landscape riddled with fear and loss. Could Macallan save the day? Could Lacy depend on him? Could she even trust him? 

As Brew Town devolves into anything but normal, thrusting these life long frenemies together for better or worse the whole town stumbles along with them to fight an unseen terror that threatens life on earth in ways none of them could have ever imagined. 

About Brew Town
Loosely based around the real live town of Brewton, Alabama, a quaint and beautiful town in South Central Alabama about 100 miles from the panhandle of Florida and the Gulf Coast. 

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