eerieindiana | What Happened To Kerbie Walobee?

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Moving from New York City to Eerie, Indiana was hard enough for Michael and Michele. After all, they were in high school, had lots of friends, and they loved the City and all its activity. Now their parents were making them move to Indiana? Ugh! How would they ever adjust to small town life? Little did they know...it would become much harder than they could have ever imagined.

You see soon after moving to Eerie, the kids would find something...something that would change their lives forever...something buried...in the basement of their new house. What was it? How did it get there? What will happen when they dig it up?

Find out the answer to these questions, and more, as you solve the mystery along with Michael and Michele in What Happened to Kerbie Walobee?, a new thriller from Shamara S. Davis.

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From:

evilinsanemonkey

i.

what?

From:

froodle

Right? It's a purchasable book but it's not,as far as I can see, an Eerie tie-in. I kinda want to get it.

From:

deifire

If you do, let us know! I'll admit, I'm very curious.

From:

froodle

If I end up giving in to my curiosity, I definitely will! I did peep the writers instagram and it didnt give me great hope, but I admit I'm judgy about mommy bloggers.

From:

deifire

You're supposed to file the serial numbers off when you publish your fanfic for money!

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froodle

Like, I know that Eerie is not the massive fandom we might like it to be, but how do you publish something that straight up takes place in a town that is an existing IP, that is the NAME of that IP?

From:

deifire

IKR? And apparently it's been up since 2013 without any objections. Or reviews.

I'm so curious now.

From:

froodle

I feel like I have seen this title before now,which it it's been floating around since 2013 makes sense, but if I did I never posted or at least tagged it before.

From:

deifire

From the preview, it seems like Marshall's exact story, only with a slightly different name and a twin(?) sister.

Which...at least Alex Hirsch was way subtler about it.

From:

froodle

2013, Gravity Falls would also have been out and about. Like damn, even Cassie Claire changed the dang names.

From:

friendof_dorothy

I've only seen like 3 episodes of Gravity Falls but uhhh this is the plot synopsis on Smashwords

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Caught up in the excitement of the journal. The children try to solve a 40 year old mystery that leads them to danger'

aint that literally the plot of Gravity Falls?

From:

evilinsanemonkey

yes

yes it is

From:

froodle

Oh my god, so it's a rip off of a show that The creator characterised as a ripoff of Eerie? How meta.

From:

evilinsanemonkey

the ultimate rip off?

From:

froodle

A rip off inside of an homage inside of a nod of the head?

From:

deifire

My mind is blown.

It has exploded, then been immediately replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

From:

froodle

A turducken of unnecessary-ness?

From:

froodle

You're not wrong

From:

friendof_dorothy

50 Shades of Grey: Eerie Indiana non-Bondage Edition might have been a more accurate title lmao

From:

froodle

And I just shot tea out of my nose. Revenge for the tomato spoiler? Nicely done! ;D

From:

friendof_dorothy

I plead the fifth :)

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froodle

From:

deifire

*snerk*

*immediately wonders if there'd been a market for the other edition, because I am a terrible person*

From:

froodle

There would. It might be small, but I bet it would be a better seller than the existing version.

From:

deifire

If I only I didn't write smut at the speed of a lethargic glacier...

From:

froodle

Is Kindle Serial still a thing, where you publish in installmenta? Or did i make that up? Hmm, Amazon gives me the category nothing in it, looks like it's not a thing anymore.

From:

deifire

I remember those, but haven't seen one in forever. Maybe they're gone.

From:

froodle

Can't find it on UK Amazon either so I'm thinking they died a death

From:

deifire

[Note: The author of this comment has not actually read 50 Shades of Grey.]
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When college student and part-time paranormal investigator Marshall Tyler interviews the man known only as Mr. X, heir to the planet's largest technology empire, he finds himself instantly drawn to the enigmatic billionaire with the prematurely grey hair and tattooed hands. By the end of their meeting, he's not sure what he wants more: X's secrets, or the man himself.

X knows letting the young investigator into his life is dangerous. Marshall threatens to expose every secret—both otherworldly and erotic—X needs to protect. Still, he finds himself driven by an overwhelming need to see Marshall again. To see him, to possess him, and to control him.

As X submits to his darkest desires, Marshall submits to him. The two begin a passionate affair that soon threatens the very nature of reality itself…

***

"Oh my god!" Janet threw down the manuscript, thoroughly scandalized. "At least do a better job of disguising the names. What if Marshall sees this?"

"I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about," said Sara Sue, only pulling off a reasonable innocent face because half of it was, as usual, hidden by her hair. "It's a very common first name."

"Right. And paranormal investigator is a very common profession. I'm sure it's all just a coincidence." Unable to stop herself, Janet picked the thing back up, flipped to a random page, and read:

It's for the mission, I tell myself, as he takes me over his knee. His upper body strength is impressive, almost parabelievable.

This isn't happening.

"I'm going to punish you," X says, his voice a seductive growl, "and then I'm going to use you. And then we're going to discuss the future consequences of you messing with my stuff without permission ever again."

I try not to squirm as he runs one of those strangely marked hands over my naked backside.

And then he lifts it and brings back it down on my exposed flesh. Hard.

I gasp.

Holy corn.

"Sara Sue!" Janet threw the pages aside again. Good taste had definitely taken a holiday.

"What?" Sara Sue's faux-innocent expression didn't change. "It's harmless fiction. Besides, I didn't write it. I'm just illustrating it. See?"

Janet looked. The first illustration was a photorealistic drawing of a man who looked suspiciously like, but who was definitely not, her ex-boyfriend, locked in a passionate embrace with another man who was definitely not his long-time nemesis.

The next was a sketch showing the same two characters, this time in a different pose. Leather wrist cuffs and a riding crop were involved.

Janet closed her eyes. She needed a stiff drink and some way to permanently erase the last ten minutes from her memory.

"It's a commission," Sara Sue explained. "Money's been tight since the gallery fire, and I'm a little behind on rent."

"But who—?"

"I don't know. It just showed up in my inbox one day. The author's anonymous. The money comes from a place called Unreality, Inc." She shrugged. "I didn't really figure it mattered, as long as the checks clear."

Janet tried and failed to avoid looking at Sara Sue's illustrations again. Her friend had done an uncanny job of capturing Marshall's expression in a moment of pure bliss.

Janet's eyes narrowed. "You weren't planning on signing any of these, were you?"

"Of course not!" said Sara Sue. "Don't be silly."

The split second of hesitation was so slight Janet almost missed it.

From:

froodle

(took a brief respite to get a drink of water and come back to it) oh my GLOB Sara sue! This is awesome!

From:

deifire

*eg*

I'm trying to decide if I want to a) put this on AO3, or b) keep going. My only knowledge of the original Fifty Shades is through osmosis, but I'm not sure I want to read it just to do an Eerie version of it.