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Podcast: Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
Episode: Deadeye by Daniel Gene Barlekamp
Description: A teen hanging out at the school football field challenges the unseen. What happens next? Well… let’s just say it gives new meaning to the term ‘end zone.’Daniel Gene Barlekamp is the author of fiction and poetry for young readers and adults. His middle-grade ghost story “The Curse of the Cat Man” appears in the anthology The Haunted States of America (Godwin Books/Macmillan, 2024), and his poetry has been translated into Mandarin by Poetry Hall. Originally from New Jersey, Daniel now lives with his wife and son in Massachusetts, where he works in immigration law by day and atte...