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The Watertower

Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooter's Hill — its iron legs rusted, its egg-shaped tank warped and leaking — casting a long dark shadow across the valley, across Preston itself.

Genre
mysteryaliens and first contactfantasyhorrorscience fiction
Setting
australia
Mood
surreal
Audience
picture bookschildrensyoung adult
Length
short · 32 pages
Form
graphic novels

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