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The Good People Got On With Their Lives
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some places feel wrong before you can explain why.
On a simple drive, Sarah and Tom pass through a town called Goodville-quiet and unsettling in a way that has nothing to do with what they can see. A single encounter leaves Sarah shaken, and the feeling follows them long after they put miles behind them.
At a roadside diner, a local named Ted begins to talk. What starts as conversation becomes something else: a portrait of a place where goodness is a rule, a ritual, and a justification-and where the cost of keeping life comfortable is paid by someone else.
The Good People Got On With Their Lives is a quiet, unnerving short story about moral certainty, social complicity, and the danger of calling something normal simply because it has always been that way. It doesn't offer easy answers-only questions that linger.
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