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The excerpt centers on “The Gates” by Cory Andrews, exploring fearful questions about repentance and the afterlife, then grounding dread in a rural Pennsylvania legend tied to a burned-down county insane asylum. It follows local teen outcasts who gather at a remote clearing, where blasphemy, sin, and whispered screams blur into an imagined doorway to Hell.","CONTENTS  \nHellBound Books’  \nHellBound Books’  \nThe Gates  \nConscience  \nVisions of Hell  \nBone Broth  \nBlood in the Cut  \nSummer Of ‘74  \nAll The Sweet Things  \nJukai  \nBe Back at Three  \nThe Nameless Girl  \nEcho Cove  \nGaki  \nDead Mall  \nThe Dollhouse  \nToys to Play With  \nToday’s Special at the Forget-Me-Not Café: Muddy Bones and a Slice of Guilt  \nBon Appetit  \nMy Possession: An Introspective  \nMy Friend Eddie  \nPhotographs  \nSide Effects May Include:  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHELLBOUND BOOKS’  \nAnthology of Horror  \ncurated and edited by Jaime Powell  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nA HellBound Books® LLC Publication  \nCopyright © 2024 by HellBound Books® Publishing LLCAll Rights Reserved  \nCover design by Tee Arts for  \nHellBound Books® Publishing LLC  \n[www.hellboundbookspublishing.com](www.hellboundbookspublishing.com)  \nNo part of this publication can be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, mechanical, digital, electronic, photocopying or recording, except for inclusion in a review, without permission in writing from the individual contributors and the  \npublisher.  \nAll contents in this anthology are works of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are imaginary. Any resemblance to actual persons, places or occurrences are coincidental only.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHELLBOUND BOOKS’  \nAnthology of Horror  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE GATES  \nCory Andrews  \nI think anyone who has repented in their life, and I mean seriously repented, not for the venial sins but for the mortal, has thought to themselves, was it enough? Enough to not be cast into the fires of Hell when their physical body ceases to breathe. Enough to ascend to God’s palace in Heaven  \nIs it the destination the repentant man fears? Or is it the fear that he will not meet his beloved family, friends, and pets in the afterlife? That he’ll be banished from the utopia of Heaven, letting the just and righteous down one final time.  \nNo Rainbow Bridge.  \nNo Pearly Gates.  \nNo Eternal Life.  \nOnly pain and suffering. For eternity.  \nThese worries came often to Dave DiBruno in the small hours of the night despite ending his wicked ways well over twenty years prior.  \nIn the spring of 1998, in the small rural Pennsylvania town of Bennet, there wasn’t much to do for the misfit teenagers. The ones not focused on finding their fame under the Friday Night Lights. The ones without the smarts or encouragement to pursue education past the twelfth grade-if they could pass that. The ones destined to work a monotonous job at the mill for forty-five years, get their sweetheart knocked up three times before twentyfive years of age, and have a beer gut before forty.  \nThese social outcasts were the ones who usually found themselves rebelling against their institutions and their churches. Though one could hardly blame their anger at the church—the Catholic Church more specifically—if you consider the scandalous headlines dominating the news at the time. As too often is the case, the young, ignorant, and unguided  \nconfuse their disdain of the wicked infiltrators of the church with God himself.  \nWhile the jocks practiced for the big game, and the smart kids diligently hit the books preparing to get out of Bennet, you could find these stoners, sluts, punks, and drunks wasting their youth in the woods of Bennet at a secluded spot dubbed ‘The Gates’.  \nTo get to The Gates you had to wedge between a hole in the fence behind the Daily Fresh Bakery, slide down a hill full of vines, poison ivy, jagged rocks, and fallen trees. 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