title: Bedtime Stories from the Outer Banks
author: Walt Johnson
description: <b>Walt Johnson</b> started going to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in high school to go surfing. After college he moved to the Outer Banks where he wrote and owned several businesses, one of which was called The Rainforest. Since then he has moved to Wilmington, NC, where he continues to write and teach English. As of 2012 he still lives there.
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  Copyright © 2020 Tom Reynolds
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Written in Brooklyn, New York.
  
  
  Printed in the United States of America.
  
  
  Published 2020
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents
  are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and
  are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead,
  actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # New Empire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Tom Reynolds
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Should we be doing this without Midnight?”
  
  
  “Connor, how many times are you going to ask?” Sarah replies. “He told us we
  could handle it on our own.”
  
  
  “I’m with Sarah. Although, I still argue that I could have done this safely
  from the comfort of my dorm room,” Jim chimes in.
  
  
  “No way,” I reply. “We all need to be here. I couldn’t reach Midnight for a
  week when he was in Kaldonia. I don’t w